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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 23 November.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1915 (Tuesday)

• Codford: Battalion proceeds in two trains for Folkstone.
• Folkstone: Battalion boards HMT Princess Victoria, heading for Boulogne.
• Battalion strength: 23 officers, 896 other ranks.

1916 (Thursday)

• Battalion is situated in billets at Mailly-Maillet.
• The rescue party remains in trenches but no result.
• Orders are received for the Lonsdales to parade and then march for Arqueves. They arrive at 4.30pm.
• A draft of 12 men reports for duty.

1917 (Friday)

• Battalion situated at Hill Top Farm preparing battle stores and equipment.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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