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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 29 September.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Tuesday)

• Three men are recruited at Brampton.
• Enlistments: William George Barnfather (13398 Pte.) / Joseph Miller Gibson (13383 Pte.) / Joseph Hodgson (13363 Pte.) / Samuel Russell Irving (15415 Pte.).
• Thorpe’s of Carlisle acknowledge order for “2000 pairs of Pants at 40s [£2] per dozen.”

1916 (Friday)

• Companies at the disposal of Company Commanders during the morning.
• The commanding officer, medical officer, one other officer and two NCO's per Company attend a course on Gas at Beuvry, commencing 9:30am.
• Companies take part in a one-hour route march durimng afternoon.

1917 (Saturday)

• Battalion finds working parties for the front line battalion.
• B Company carrying party is led astray by Highland Light Infantry guide. One other rank is wounded and missing and another, wounded; one other rank killed at Battalion HQ.
• Deaths: John Burgess (13715 Pte.) and James Frederick Gilpin (7827 Pte.).

1918

• Deaths: Harold Kitchin (19551 Pte.)

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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