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

1914 (Wednesday)

• Schedule of lights and fittings at the Grand Stand.
• Monthly indents of personal clothing and kits are issued to C Company in Kendal.

1915 (Thursday)

• Battalion leaves Longpré at 1am: A Company marches to Ergnies, arriving at 7am.
• B Company, C Company and D Company marches to Gorenflos, arriving at 5:30am and remain in billets.
• Lt-Col. Machell: "Very good moving on gradually, so the men get used to billeting; it’s a big change for these lads, accustomed to having everything done for them. Their minds move slowly and they think it’s still training; so far we have got along first rate, much better than others. Spring-Rice very good at getting the transport along."

1916 (Saturday)

• Battalion parades then leaves Arqueves at 9.25am; arrives Gezaincourt 12 noon.
• A draft of 40 men reports in as reinforcements.

1917 (Sunday)

• Battalion is situated in the Bellvue area.
• A and C Companies withdraw without relief onto B and D Companies. Both A and C Companies suffer heavy casualties owing to a hostile barrage put down in the front line area.
• Battalion is relieved by the 15th Highland Light Infantry, which completes at 11.30pm.
• Battalion then moves on to relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the left subsector via Kronprinz Farm. Relief completes at 2am on the following morning.
• Captain J. Benson, 2nd Lieut. J.R McDonald, 2nd Lieut. Duncan and 35 other ranks are wounded. 12 other ranks are killed and 7 are missing.

The following Lonsdale men died this day in 1917

• Bishop, Arthur James (28824 Pte.)
• Bromley, Ernest (28919 Pte.)
• Cannon, Thomas Henry (260209 Pte.)
• Clark, John Jack (28828 Pte.)
• Clegg, John William (260213 Pte.)
• Crick, William James (32085 L/Cpl.)
• Davies, George (28929 Pte.)
• Davis, Stanley Wilberforce (35017 Sgt.)
• Fox, William Henry (260223 Pte.)
• Garrett, Thomas Arthur (35028 Sgt.)
• Hammond, Francis Eli (27250 L/Cpl.)
• Lawson, Thomas (32681 Pte.)
• Logan, William Robert (260234 Pte.)
• Nixon, Joseph (27994)
• Pedder, Henry (260253)
• Smith, William (18812)
• Steele, Thomas Robert (28970)

References

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 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.