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==1914 (Thursday)==
*Newspaper article ''[[Lonsdale Battalion - Further list of Recruits]]'' is published.<ref>[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]], published 26 November, 1914.</ref>
===Western Front===
*Redmaynes of Wigton sends 999 suits caps to [[Blackhall Camp]].<ref>{{lowther|recno=62}}</ref>
*German attacks on [[Missy-sur-Aisne]] and along the Yser Canal repulsed.
*Telegram from Mrs. Dixon of Wood View, Carlisle: "Could the [[Lonsdale Battalion]] use ½ a ton of jam? It is offered as a present from some people in Carlisle." <ref>{{lowther|recno=?}}</ref>
===Eastern Front===
*Letter to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]: "The Committee of the Wesley House Soldiers’ Institute....that there will be a concert for Soldiers (admission free) at the Y.M.C.A. Hall on Saturday....The Committee are sorry to find that another Concert for Soldiers is to be given in the Bank Street institute on the same evening. They think that everyone working for these brave men who are ready to give their lives for their King and Country should work in harmony and that there should be no competition." <ref>{{lowther|recno=258}}</ref>
*Bukovina: Austrians again evacuate [[Czernowitz]].
===Naval and Overseas Operations===
*{{HMS|Bulwark}} blown up in the Medway (foul play suspected - loss of 800).
 
==1915 (Friday)==
==References/notes==
*Newspaper article ''[[The King's Message to the Lonsdales]]'' is published.<ref>[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]], published 26 November, 1915.</ref>
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*Situated in [[billet]]s at Gorenflos.
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==1916 (Sunday)==
*Battalion parades then leaves Gezaincourt at 8.15pm.
*Arrives Berteaucourt at 1pm as General Barns watches the men march past him en route.
 
==1917 (Monday)==
*Wesroosebeek: Battalion is holding the line, all reported as quiet.
*{{B Company}} captures one prisoner.
*Eight [[other ranks]] are wounded and two are missing.
*Deaths: [[John Henry Atkinson (13469)]] and [[William Herbert Hartley (25804 Cpl.)]]
 
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