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

1914 (Thursday)

• Newspaper article Lonsdale Battalion - Further list of Recruits is published.
• Redmaynes of Wigton sends 999 suits caps to Blackhall Camp.
• 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."
• Letter to 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."

1915 (Friday)

• Newspaper article The King's Message to the Lonsdales is published.
• Situated in billets at Gorenflos.

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.)

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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