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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 27 November.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Friday)

• General Equipment Indent: 1100 shirts, flannel, silvery grey.
• Diagrams of electric and petrol lighting at Blackhall Camp showing the ranges of buildings and the number and position of lighting points.

1915 (Saturday)

• Battalion marches to Picquigny; arrives 1:30pm. Billets in a sharp frost.

1916 (Monday)

• Battalion situated at Berteaucourt involved in company parades for inspections.

1917 (Tuesday)

• Situation quiet. Battalion is relieved in the left sub-sector by 16th Lancashire Fusiliers; relief is complete by 8pm.
• Battalion moves to Hill Top Farm; in huts by midnight.
• Thomas Birkett Stockdale (25066) is killed in action, John Noble (35045) dies of wounds and two other ranks are missing.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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