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==1915==
==1915==
*Letter from Brigadier Collings to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]: {{quote-left}}I wrote to Sir. H. Mackinnon asking him if your Battalion could not be pushed on to musketry, & and he replies that he regrets very much he cannot get rifles for you to do so.{{quote-right}} <ref>{{lowther|recno=120}}</ref>
*Letter from [[Brigadier]] Collings to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]: {{quote-left}}I wrote to Sir. H. Mackinnon asking him if your Battalion could not be pushed on to musketry, & and he replies that he regrets very much he cannot get rifles for you to do so.{{quote-right}} <ref>{{lowther|recno=120}}</ref>


==1915==
==1915==
*R.Q.M.S.<ref>Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant.</ref> R. Stanley is appointed the commission of Captain.
*R.Q.M.S.<ref>[[Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant]].</ref> R. Stanley is appointed the commission of [[Captain]].


==1916==
==1916==
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==1917==
==1917==
*Battalion situated at Camon; parades in full marching order and marches to Weincourt.<ref name="wdfeb17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1917]]</ref>
*[[Battalion]] situated at Camon; parades in full marching order and marches to Weincourt.<ref name="wdfeb17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1917]]</ref>
*Deaths: [[William Ernest Crayston (23989 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref>


==1918==
==1918==
*Battalion situated in camp near Woesten where Companies are working under the Royal Engineers repairing [[Pill Box|pill boxes]] and [[machine gun]] defences. [[Specialists|Specialist training]] as usual.<ref name="wdfeb18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1918]]</ref>
*Battalion situated in camp near Woesten where Companies are working under the Royal Engineers repairing [[Pill Box|pill boxes]] and [[machine gun]] defences. [[Specialists|Specialist training]] as usual.<ref name="wdfeb18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1918]]</ref>
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*[[William Ernest Crayston (23989 Pte.)|Crayston, William Ernest (23989 Pte.)]]
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Revision as of 10:08, 29 June 2017

February

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 22 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 22 February on The Great War wiki.

1915

  • Letter from Brigadier Collings to Lt-Col. Machell: I wrote to Sir. H. Mackinnon asking him if your Battalion could not be pushed on to musketry, & and he replies that he regrets very much he cannot get rifles for you to do so. [1]

1915

  • R.Q.M.S.[2] R. Stanley is appointed the commission of Captain.

1916

  • Situated in hut billets in Hénencourt Wood, takes on duty of readiness to move into reserve at 6pm.[3]

1917

1918

References / notes

Material from Timeline/Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915) are sourced from the DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Entries from this timeline are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther and are not available under the license of this site. Please do not publish these extracts on other publicly visible media without prior permission from the copyright holder.

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