The Lonsdale Battalion

23 December

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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 23 December.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 23 December on The Great War wiki.

1915

  • Battalion is relieved by the 17th Highland Light Infantry and proceeds to Bouzincourt.[1]
  • "First week in trenches, only six casualties, one, Nicholson (of Carlisle), since died. The 51st Division, to which we were attached, especially thanked Rycroft for the way the 11th Borders had played up."[2] – Lt-Col. P.W. Machell [3]

References / notes

  1. ↑ 11th Battalion War Diary, November to December 1915
  2. ↑ Not meant in the sense to misbehave or aggrandise, but rather more appropriately and positively how they engaged themselves in their actions.
  3. ↑ Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France
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