23 November: Difference between revisions

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.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

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-==1915==
+==1915 (Tuesday)==
+*Codford: Battalion proceeds in two trains for Folkstone.
-*The Lonsdales leave Folkstone for Boulogne at 9:30am on the ''Princess Victoria''. They spend the night at a rest-camp.
+*Folkstone:  Battalion boards HMT ''Princess Victoria'', heading for Boulogne.
-*[[Battalion]] strength: 23 officers, 896 [[other ranks]].<ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, November to December 1915]]</ref>
+*[[Battalion]] strength: 23 officers, 896 [[other ranks]].
-==1916==
+==1916 (Thursday)==
-*Battalion situated in [[billet]]s at Mailly-Maillet. The rescue party remains in [[trench]]es but no result.<ref name="wdnov16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, November 1916]]</ref>
+*Battalion is situated in [[billet]]s at Mailly-Maillet.
+*The rescue party remains in [[trench]]es but no result.
-*Orders are received to march. At 1.25pm the Lonsdales parade and march for Arqueves; arrives at 4.30pm. Draft of 12 men reported.<ref name="wdnov16" />
+*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==
-*Battalion situated at Hill Top Farm preparing battle stores and equipment.<ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, November 1917]]</ref>
-==References / notes==
-<!--<small>{{lowther copyright}}</small>-->
-{{reflist}}
-<!--{{refs-lowther}}-->
+==1917 (Friday)==
+*Battalion situated at Hill Top Farm preparing battle stores and equipment.
+<br/>
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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