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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 25 December.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Friday)

• Newspaper article Lonsdale Battalion - New Local Recruits is published in the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian.

1915 (Saturday)

• Bouzincourt: Battalion has Church Parade.
• A Company proceeds to billets in Aveluy where they are involved in fatigue duties for the 97th Brigade Headquarters.

1916 (Monday)

• Puchevillers: Holy Communion at 9am and 12pm. Games for the remainder of the day.

1917 (Tuesday)

• Battalion situated at Siege Camp.
• Morning: Companies are at the disposal of company commanders.
• Afternoon: Battalion attends a burial service of Capt. J. Cook Gray, M.C., who was killed in action on 22 December.

1918 (Wednesday)

• Deaths: Henry Entecott (22515 Pte.)

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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