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*Two men are recruited at Bromfield, another two at Caldbeck and 13 at Devonshire Street.<ref>{{lowther|recno=279}}</ref> |
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===Western Front=== |
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*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.<ref>{{lowther|recno=66}}</ref> |
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*[[Battle of the Yser]]: Struggle for [[Dixmude]] continued. |
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*[[First Battle of Ypres]]: Germans capture [[Langemarck]]. |
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*Battle round [[La Bassée]]: Beginning of a severe ten-days' effort of the Germans to break through. |
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===Naval and Overseas Operations=== |
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*[[South Africa]]: Rebels routed at [[Keimoes]]. |
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*{{SMS|Emden}}'s third list of captures announced. |
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==1915== |
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*Deaths: [[William John Branch (6110 Pte.)]].<ref>{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref> |
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==1916== |
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*[[Battalion]] remains in Herissat. Parade in the morning. Instruction on bombing and live [[grenade]] throwing in afternoon.<ref name="wdoct16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, October 1916]]</ref> |
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*Commanding officer, Col. Girdwood rejoins the Battalion along with 6 other ranks.<ref name="wdoct16" /> |
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==1917== |
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*Battalion situated at Teteghem. At 9am Companies and Battalion HQ carry out 6 mile route march (independently) in full marching order.<ref name="wdoct17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, October 1917]]</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:12, 6 June 2020
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 22 October.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 22 October on The Great War wiki.
1914
- Two men are recruited at Bromfield, another two at Caldbeck and 13 at Devonshire Street.[1]
- 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.[2]
1915
- Deaths: William John Branch (6110 Pte.).[3]
1916
1917
- Battalion situated at Teteghem. At 9am Companies and Battalion HQ carry out 6 mile route march (independently) in full marching order.[5]
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.
- ↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/279
- ↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/66
- ↑ Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) / Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 11th Battalion War Diary, October 1916
- ↑ 11th Battalion War Diary, October 1917