24 October

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

1914 (Saturday)

Five men are recruited at Holme St. Cuthbert’s and 18 men at 7 Devonshire Street.^[1]
Allen Pearson Lumsden (15383) enlists in Working.
Lt-Col. Machell reports to Lord Lonsdale: “A football match and that the players wanted to wear yellow [Lonsdale] colours; men not on duty were allowed to go home for the weekend; recruitment now over 700.^[2]
Carlisle South-End Cooperative Society: “We have delivered boots...as follows: Blackwell Camp 687 and 1 pair specials [size] 14, and to Kendal 238 pairs making 925 pairs...leaving 125 pairs.^[3]

Battalion leaves Teteghem at 8.15am and marches for Zeegers Cappel, arriving 1pm.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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