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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 24 November.
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1915 (Wednesday)
- Newspaper article Lonsdales in the Trenches - Chaplain wants Football for Them, is published in the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian.
- Battalion is situated at Boulogne rest camp involved in preparation for entraining to Longpré.[a]
1916 (Friday)
- Battalion remains in billets in Arqueves.
- John Bevan (27706 Pte.) dies of wounds.
1917 (Saturday)
- 2.45pm: Battalion moves from Hill Top Farm to Bellevue via Kronprinz Farm.
- A Company and B Company relieve the support and reserve companies of the 2nd King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
- C Company relieves one company of the 2nd Middlesex at Moselmack.
- D Company relieves one company of the 2nd West Yorkshires. Relief is complete at 7pm.
- Four other ranks are wounded.
Notes
- ↑ War diary remarks show that Captain Hogarth and three other ranks are left in a hospital at Boulogne due to sickness. An interpreter is also attached to the battalion.
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 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.