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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 22 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1915 (Monday)

Events preceding the Lonsdales' arrival in France

• 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.
• Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant R. Stanley is appointed the commission of Captain.

1916 (Tuesday)

• Hénencourt Wood: Situated in hut billets preparing to move into reserve at 6pm.

1917 (Thursday)

• Camon: Battalion parades in full marching order. Marches to Weincourt.
• William Ernest Crayston (23989 Pte.) dies of wounds, aged 29.

1918 (Friday)

• Situated in camp near Woesten where companies are working under the Royal Engineers repairing pill boxes and machine gun defences
• Specialist training as usual.

References

Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)

Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile The Lonsdale Battalion On This Day. The majority of the events shown on this day (22 February), including any supplementary notes, enlistments and statistical data etc., have been primarily sourced from the Lonsdale Battalion War Diary (November 1915 to June 1918), Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) and abridged material from Timeline and Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915), which are sourced from the original DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Events from that chronology are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther (2016). They are identified and referenced separately by their unique DLONS numbers. Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate. All casualty names, numbers, ranks, date of deaths and places of burial/commemoration have been sourced from Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database respectively.