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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 29 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 29 August on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Tuesday)
- A bombardment of the enemy's lines is carried out at 4:20pm by Allied Field Guns: 4.5 Howitzers, medium and light trench mortars and rifle grenades batteries.
- The bombardment lasts for 30 mins with very little retaliation. The German trenches are badly damaged.
- From 4:30pm to 10:30pm it rains very heavily causing some damage to the Lonsdales trenches and dug-outs.
1917 (Wednesday)
- Battalion situated at Oost Dunkerque cleaning up billets; rains during the morning.
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 (29 August), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.