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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 26 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1916 (Saturday)

• Battalion situated in the Hulluch Sector.
• 10:30am: the Commanding Officer visits the 17th Highland Light Infantry Battalion HQ.
• 2:00pm: the Commanding Officer visits the front line trenches which will be taken over by the Battalion on 28 August. Day very quiet.
• Deaths: Oswald Dixon (15117 Pte.).

1917 (Sunday)

• The Lonsdales bathe at Divisional baths - Pont de Ghyvelde.
• Major T.F. Tweed takes over command of 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 (26 August), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.