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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 27 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 27 February on The Great War wiki.

1915

• Promotion to Sergeant: John Cornelius McDivitt (13249) of A Company.
• Promotions to Corporal: William Stirling Hunter (13300), W. Dixon (13259), James Raven (13373), E.C. Tinnion (13256) and Robert Ritchie (13723), all of A Company.
• Appointments to Lance Corporal: E. Brockbank (13269), P. Bryan (13270), J. Moore (13308), John James McSkimmings (13379) and J. Peacher (13335), all of A Company.
• A progress report states that “The 5th (Depot) Company is billeted in the neighbourhood.”
• Football match takes place at Brunton Park, Carlisle.

1916

• Situated in billets in Millencourt involved in fatigue duties.

1917

• Battalion situated as Quesnel involved in general parades for training and instruction.

1918

• Battalion situated at camp near Woesten. A repetition of 26 February. Specialists training as usual.

References / notes

Material from Timeline/Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915) are sourced from the DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Entries from this timeline are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther and are not available under the license of this site. Please do not publish these extracts on other publicly visible media without prior permission from the copyright holder.