29 March

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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 29 March.
For events that took place elsewhere in the Great War, see The Great War:29 March.

1915 (Monday)

Events preceding the Lonsdales' arrival in France

• Fred Graham (19443 Pte.) of Little Corby enlists in B Company.
• Reversion to rank at own request: Lance Corporal J. Litt (17407) of E Company.

1916 (Wednesday)

• Dernancourt: Relieves the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the E1 sector.
• A draft of two officers (2nd Lieuts. Davidson and Monkhouse) and 20 other ranks join the Battalion.

1917 (Thursday)

• Foreste: Resting during the day, then digging during the night.
• One company digs out posts at Vaux and another at Étreillers.

1918 (Friday)

• Battalion Headquarters moves to the centre of Adinfer Wood.
• Trenches are improved.

Notes

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 (29 March), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.