25 December: Difference between revisions

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

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-==1914==
+==1914 (Friday)==
-*Newspaper article: ''[[Lonsdale Battalion - New Local Recruits]]''.<ref>[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]], published 25 December, 1914.</ref>
+*Newspaper article ''[[Lonsdale Battalion - New Local Recruits]]'' is published in the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]].
-==1915==
+==1915 (Saturday)==
+*Bouzincourt: Battalion has Church Parade.
-*[[Battalion]] situated at Bouzincourt have Church Parade. 'A' Company proceeds to [[billet]]s in Aveluy where they are involved in fatigue duties<ref>Fatigue duty is the employment of manual labour assigned to military men that does not necessitate the use of weaponry.</ref> for [[97th Brigade]] Headquarters.<ref name="wdnovdec15">[[11th Battalion War Diary, November to December 1915]]</ref>
+*{{A Company}} proceeds to [[billet]]s in Aveluy where they are involved in [[fatigue duty|fatigue duties]] for the  [[97th Brigade]] Headquarters.
-==1916==
+==1916 (Monday)==
-*Battalion situated at Puchevillers. Holy Communion at 9am and 12pm. Games for remainder of day.<ref name="wddec16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, December 1916]]</ref>
+*Puchevillers: Holy Communion at 9am and 12pm. Games for the remainder of the day.
-==1917==
+==1917 (Tuesday)==
+*Battalion situated at Siege Camp.
-*Battalion situated at 'Siege Camp' where, during the morning, Companies are at the disposal of [[Company]] Commanders.<ref name="wddec17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, December 1917]]</ref>
+*Morning: Companies are at the disposal of [[company]] commanders.
-*Battalion attends a burial service of Capt. J. Cook Gray, M.C., during afternoon.<ref name="wddec17" />
+*Afternoon: Battalion attends a burial service of Capt. J. Cook Gray, M.C., who was [[killed in action]] on [[22 December]].
-==1918==
+==1918 (Wednesday)==
-*Deaths: [[Henry Entecott (22515 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref>
+*Deaths: [[Henry Entecott (22515 Pte.)]]
+<br/>
-==References / notes==
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