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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 24 June.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 24 June on The Great War wiki.

1916 (Saturday)

• Battalion situated at Authuille Sector.
• 18 pounder guns cut the enemy wire at 5.30am and continues during the day. Enemy retaliation is practically nil.
• Gas raid on night 24-25 June in Authuille Sector ineffective owing to unfavourable wind.

1917 (Sunday)

• Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion attends church parade in the sand dunes at 10am.
• Period shooting takes place during the afternoon.
• Deaths: William Carr (13683 Pte.)

1918 (Monday)

• Battalion cadre arrives at Doullens and billets in the town.

Notes

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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