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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 24 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1916 (Thursday)

• Battalion leaves Philosophe at 11:00am for support trenches in Hulluch Sector relieving the Royal Irish Rifles; relief is complete at 1:30pm.
• Allied aeroplanes very active during afternoon and evening over German lines.
• Trench strength at 15 officers and 305 other ranks.

1917 (Friday)

• B Company and D Company practice 'Rapid Consolidation'; A Company and C Company in musketry and firing.
• Sports take place in the afternoon.

1918 (Saturday)

• Deaths: James Kay (15394 Sgt.).

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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