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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 24 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 24 April on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Monday)
- Contay Wood: Battalion in isolation camp (measles) involved in training and small working parties.[a]
- 2nd Lt. Green (D Company) and 2nd Lt. Machell (C Company) join the Battalion.
1917 (Tuesday)
- Battalion moves from Hombleux to Offoy.
- Deaths: Thomas William Harding (12789 L/Cpl.)
1918 (Wednesday)
- In the Line: Hostile artillery is more active during the day.
- Attempted raid on enemy post fails due to overshooting of a Stokes mortar barrage, resulting in the enemy seeing the raiders in the moonlight.
- Deaths: Fergus Duers (16412 Sgt.)
Notes
- ↑ Training continues for those who are able during the whole period of isolation.
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 (24 April), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.