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

1914 (Wednesday)

• 16 men are recruited at Dalston.
• Enlistments: William Foster (13276 Pte.) and Herbert Little (13296 L/Cpl.)
• Lt-Col. Machell states: “The [daily] rates of pay of officers and men are as follows - Sergeant 2s 4d [12p], Corporal 1s 8d [7p] and Private 1s [5p].”

1916 (Saturday)

• Battalion is situated in the front line trenches (Cuinchy Sector).
• Encounters enemy trench mortars and aerial darts in the direction of the 'Brickstacks' during both the morning and afternoon; there is no material damage.
• Enemy artillery (77mm) fires a number of rounds in the direction of Cuinchy Church at 4pm.
• The Bombing Officer visits the front line trenches during afternoon and Brigadier General Jardine visits Battalion HQ at 11:45pm.

1917 (Sunday)

• Battalion situated at Zuydcoote has church parade. Operations Orders are received from Brigade.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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