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==1914 (Tuesday)== |
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*Notes on [[bayonet]] fighting: "....you can obtain a few sacks locally & get them filled with straw & suspend from a tree, goal post etc." <ref>{{lowther|recno=81}}</ref> |
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*Battalion situated in the F1 sector near Bouzincourt. Special attention is paid to the repairing of trenches and construction of dug-outs.<ref name="wdnovdec15">[[11th Battalion War Diary, November to December 1915]]</ref> |
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*Request from the Roman Catholic chaplain: "As New Year’s Day is a Sunday would it be too much to ask you to allow the Catholic [[troops]] under your command to attend Divine Service on that day." <ref>{{lowther|recno=112}}</ref> |
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*Three men are discharged,<ref group="lower-alpha">Discharges: [[Private]]s J. Dixon (13490), Henry Morgan (15423), William Barnes (15363).</ref> three men are recruited,<ref group="lower-alpha">Recruits: William Little, John green, William R. Harrison.</ref> and 21 men are posted to E Company.<ref group="lower-alpha">The following men were posted to E Company: |
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*[[John Mitchinson (17391)]] |
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*A. Davidson (17392) |
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*J.N. Richardson (17393) |
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*H.C. Wortley (17394) |
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*Alf Hunter (17395) |
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*[[Lewis Bell (17396)]] |
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*John Laybourne (17397) |
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*J.W. Charters (17398) |
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*[[Alfred Sydney (17399)]] |
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*P. Gilmore (17400) |
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*J.W. McEwan (17401) |
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*[[James William Shuttleworth (17402)]] |
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*John Harriman (17403) |
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*Angus Farraghor (17404) |
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*J. Bailiff, (17405) |
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*Robert Sisson (17406) |
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*J.W. Litt (17407) |
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*V.R. Marsh (17408) |
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*John Newton (17409) |
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*T.A. Atkinson (17410) |
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*H. Dent (17411) |
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==1915 (Wednesday)== |
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==1916== |
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*[[Battalion]] situated in the F1 sector near Bouzincourt. |
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*Battalion situated at Pusheviller involved in Brigade Sniping and map reading courses. Training under Company arrangements.<ref name="wddec16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, December 1916]]</ref> |
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*Special attention is paid to the repairing of [[trench]]es and construction of [[dug-out]]s. |
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==1916 (Friday)== |
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*Battalion situated at Pushevillers involved in [[Brigade]] [[sniping]] and map reading courses. |
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*Battalion situated at 'Siege Camp.' 3 Companies on 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 forward area; remaining Company involved with improving and cleaning the camp.<ref name="wddec17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, December 1917]]</ref> |
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*Training under [[Company]] arrangements. |
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==1917 (Saturday)== |
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*Battalion situated at Siege Camp. |
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*Three Companies on [[working parties]] in forward area; remaining Company involved with improving and cleaning the camp. |
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Latest revision as of 16:40, 14 December 2022
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 29 December.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 29 December on The Great War wiki.
1914 (Tuesday)
- Notes on bayonet fighting: "....you can obtain a few sacks locally & get them filled with straw & suspend from a tree, goal post etc." [1]
- Request from the Roman Catholic chaplain: "As New Year’s Day is a Sunday would it be too much to ask you to allow the Catholic troops under your command to attend Divine Service on that day." [2]
- Three men are discharged,[a] three men are recruited,[b] and 21 men are posted to E Company.[c][3]
1915 (Wednesday)
1916 (Friday)
1917 (Saturday)
- Battalion situated at Siege Camp.
- Three Companies on working parties in forward area; remaining Company involved with improving and cleaning the camp.
Notes
- ↑ Discharges: Privates J. Dixon (13490), Henry Morgan (15423), William Barnes (15363).
- ↑ Recruits: William Little, John green, William R. Harrison.
- ↑ The following men were posted to E Company:
- John Mitchinson (17391)
- A. Davidson (17392)
- J.N. Richardson (17393)
- H.C. Wortley (17394)
- Alf Hunter (17395)
- Lewis Bell (17396)
- John Laybourne (17397)
- J.W. Charters (17398)
- Alfred Sydney (17399)
- P. Gilmore (17400)
- J.W. McEwan (17401)
- James William Shuttleworth (17402)
- John Harriman (17403)
- Angus Farraghor (17404)
- J. Bailiff, (17405)
- Robert Sisson (17406)
- J.W. Litt (17407)
- V.R. Marsh (17408)
- John Newton (17409)
- T.A. Atkinson (17410)
- H. Dent (17411)
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 (29 December), 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.