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

1914 (Thursday)

• Two men are recruited at Bromfield, another two at Caldbeck and 13 at Devonshire Street.
• General Equipment Indent: 10 felling axes, 20 bill hooks, 10 pick axes, 10 general service shovels, 10 spades, 6 wedge sawyers, 12 latrine screens, 12 birch brooms, 50 latrine buckets, 2 bundles latrine paper.

1915 (Friday)

• William John Branch (6110) dies of wounds.

1916 (Sunday)

• Herissat: Parade in the morning.
• Instruction on bombing and live grenade throwing undertaken in the afternoon.
• Commanding officer, Colonel Girdwood, rejoins the Battalion along with six other ranks.

1917 (Monday)

• Teteghem: Companies and Battalion HQ carry out 6 mile route march (independently) in full marching order, commencing 9am.

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 October), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.