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Battalion situated at Crucifix Corner. Zero time is postponed for 48 hours. Allied artillery bombardment is less intense.
Lt-Col. P. W. Machell: “Tremendous bombardment for four days. We have had a comparatively safe two days behind this big bank, but the poor people who relieved us have suffered terribly.”
Lt-Col. P. W. Machell Battalion Orders: “The G.O.C. Division expects us to take Mouquet Farm to-morrow and keep it. I told the General that he could reply on the Lonsdales to carry out his orders. The thought that night, until we start, I ask everyone to be as quiet as possible in the wood and to show no lights, in order to avoid calling special attention to our location. Before noon to-morrow we shall have accomplished our task. I feel no doubt about it, because, as in the case of the raid, we have made every possible preparation, and the whole battalion means to do its duty, as Lieut. Barnes and the Company raiders did theirs.” – Lt-Col. P. W. Machell

1917 (Thursday)

Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion employ working parties in the line during the night, commencing work on building O.P.^{[note 1]}

1918 (Friday)

Battalion cadre^{[note 2]} arrives at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher and affiliates with HQ and 1st Battalion 130th American Infantry Regiment, 33rd American Division.
Deaths: Thomas Kirkup (8294 Pte.)

Notes

↑ Most likely to be an Observation Post.
↑ The Battalion war diary states that at midnight on 9/10 May, 1918, the 5th Border Regiment and 11th Border Regiment were amalgamated. After amalgamation a training cadre of ten officers and 51 other ranks was formed and retained the Lonsdale title of the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which continued as a training cadre until total disbandment on 31 July, 1918. The remaining cadre then joined the 1/5th Border Regiment and the Lonsdale Battalion ceased to exist.

References

Acknowledgements

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 (28 June), 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.

[1] Most likely to be an Observation Post.

[2] The Battalion war diary states that at midnight on 9/10 May, 1918, the 5th Border Regiment and 11th Border Regiment were amalgamated. After amalgamation a training cadre of ten officers and 51 other ranks was formed and retained the Lonsdale title of the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which continued as a training cadre until total disbandment on 31 July, 1918. The remaining cadre then joined the 1/5th Border Regiment and the Lonsdale Battalion ceased to exist.

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 *(General event) The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, by Serbian terrorists.
-==1916==
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-*Battalion situated at [[Crucifix Corner]]. Zero time is postponed for 48 hours. Our artillery bombardment is less intense.<ref name="wdjun16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, June 1916]]</ref>
+*Battalion situated at [[Crucifix Corner]]. [[Zero time]] is postponed for 48 hours. [[Allied]] [[artillery]] [[bombardment]] is less intense.
-*"Tremendous bombardment for four days. We have had a comparatively safe two days behind this big bank, but the poor people who relieved us have suffered terribly." &ndash; [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P. W. Machell]] <ref>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref>
+*[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P. W. Machell]]: {{quote-left}}Tremendous bombardment for four days. We have had a comparatively safe two days behind this big bank, but the poor people who relieved us have suffered terribly.{{quote-right}}
-*Battalion Orders from ([[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix D|Appendix D]]). "The G.O.C. Division expects us to take Mouquet Farm to-morrow and keep it. I told the General that he could reply on the Lonsdales to carry out his orders. The thought that night, until we start, I ask everyone to be as quiet as possible in the wood and to show no lights, in order to avoid calling special attention to our location. Before noon to-morrow we shall have accomplished our task. I feel no doubt about it, because, as in the case of the raid, we have made every possible preparation, and the whole battalion means to do its duty, as Lieut. Barnes and the Company raiders did theirs." &ndash; [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P. W. Machell]] <ref>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix D]]</ref>
+*Lt-Col. P. W. Machell Battalion Orders: {{Quote-left}}The G.O.C. Division expects us to take [[Mouquet Farm]] to-morrow and keep it. I told the General that he could reply on the [[Lonsdales]] to carry out his orders. The thought that night, until we start, I ask everyone to be as quiet as possible in the wood and to show no lights, in order to avoid calling special attention to our location. Before noon to-morrow we shall have accomplished our task. I feel no doubt about it, because, as in the case of the raid, we have made every possible preparation, and the whole battalion means to do its duty, as Lieut. Barnes and the [[Company]] raiders did theirs.{{quote-right}} &ndash; [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P. W. Machell]]
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+==1917 (Thursday)==
-*Battalion situated at Ooste-Dunkerque. Working parties<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref>  in line during night, commencing work on building O.P.<ref>Most likely to be Observation Post.</ref><ref name="wdjun17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, June 1917]]</ref>
+*Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion employ [[working parties]] in the line during the night, commencing work on building O.P.<ref group="note">Most likely to be an Observation Post.</ref>
-==1918==
+==1918 (Friday)==
+*Battalion cadre<ref group="note">The Battalion war diary states that at midnight on [[9 May|9]]/[[10 May]], 1918, the [[5th Border Regiment]] and [[11th Border Regiment]] were amalgamated. After amalgamation a training cadre of ten officers and 51 [[other ranks]] was formed and retained the Lonsdale title of the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which continued as a training cadre until total disbandment on [[31 July]], 1918. The remaining cadre then joined the [[1/5th Border Regiment]] and the Lonsdale Battalion ceased to exist.</ref> arrives at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher and affiliates with HQ and 1st Battalion 130th American Infantry Regiment, 33rd American Division.
-*Battalion cadre arrives at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher and affiliates with HQ and 1st Battalion 130th American Infantry Regiment, 33rd American Division.<ref name="wdjun18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, June 1918]]</ref>
+*Deaths: [[Thomas Kirkup (8294 Pte.)]]
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