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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 2 December.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1915 (Thursday)

• Battalion marches to Molliens-au-Bois; arrives and billets at 12:30pm.
• Involved in lectures, inspections and physical exercises.

1916 (Saturday)

• Berteaucourt: Church parade and inspection of billets by Commanding Officer.

1917 (Sunday)

• Battalion makes a night attack on German positions South of Westroosebeek in conjunction with the remaining units of 97th Brigade and two units of the 96th Brigade.
• 1.55am: Zero hour. The Lonsdales take their objectives.
• Two leapfrogging companies fall back before dawn onto subsidiary objectives. These are held all day.
• 4.30pm: The enemy launches a counterattack and the Lonsdale fall back to the old line.

The following Lonsdale men died this day in 1917

• Anderson, Robert (13705)
• Ashcroft, James (260205)
• Ashman, Frank William (28817)
• Bailey, Charles Ernest (28814 Cpl.)
• Bainbridge, Edward (202864 Pte.)
• Bainbridge, Peter (13680 L/Cpl.)
• Baker, William Richard (28818 Pte.)
• Barnes, Herbert (32001 Pte.)
• Barton, John (28916 Pte.)
• Bickley, Arthur Gordon (28825 Pte.)
• Blaylock, John James 926291 Cpl.)
• Bottom, Walter Bertram (28771 Pte.)
• Bramble, Charles John (28636 Pte.)
• Bridge, Robert John (27670 L/Cpl.)
• Broadhurst, Lee (34511 Cpl.)
• Brough, Thomas Mason (202879 Pte.)
• Brown, Ben (28923 Pte.)
• Brown, George William (241761 Pte.)
• Burgess, Edward John (25119 Pte.)
• Burgess, John (28765 L/Cpl.)
• Caddle, Thomas (25588 Pte.)
• Carmichael, John Richard (260212 Pte.)
• Craker, Samuel Ebenezer (33708 Pte.)
• Dalby, John William (260219 Pte.)
• Dalzell, Walter (32643 Pte.)
• Davidson, Frederick (15372 Pte.)
• Davidson, John Johnstone (23777 Pte.)
• Delahoy, George Frederick (33344 L/Sgt.)
• Demellweek, Joseph (230216 Pte.)
• Douglas, William John (20963 Pte.)
• Eggington, Harry (33536 Pte.)
• Fernyhough, Harold (28623 L/Sgt.)
• Fletcher, William Pritchard (260221 Pte.)
• Francis, Harry George (28274 Pte.)
• Gibson, Thomas (13902 Cpl.)
• Graham, John (26902 Pte.)
• Gunning, Walter Frederick (263073 Pte.)
• Hanson, James Robert (26480 Pte.)
• Harris, Wilfred (25083 Pte.)
• Hendrson, John (23690 Pte.)
• Hepwood, Henry (28940 Pte.)
• Hobley, Albert William (28847 Pte.)
• Hodgson, John (12969 Pte.)
• Hodgson, Robert (263076 Pte.)
• Hogg, Robert Telford (13746 Pte.)
• Howe, William (32665 Pte.)
• Hurley, Hugh (26564 Pte.)
• Hyam, John (28937 Pte.)
• Laws, Ernest Edward (33424 Pte.)
• Lowes, Christopher (15396 Pte.)
• MacDuff, William Brown (2nd Lieutenant)
• Marsh, Ernest Ambrose (28863)
• Mayall, Harold (28780)
• Mendham, George (24764)
• Merryweather, Alfred (28953)
• Moore, Robert William (33754)
• Moran, James (26613)
• Mullard, William (28629)
• Oliphant, Thomas (28150)
• Parkin, George (17444)
• Parry, Morris (260254)
• Pennington, Alfred (35043)
• Pollitt, Elijah (11919)
• Powell, John Thomas (27808)
• Poyser, Stephen (34247)
• Raven, James (13373)
• Richardson, Walter (28152)
• Ridgway, William Thomas (2/Lt.)
• Robson, Frederick (19666)
• Ryan, Joseph (33401)
• Saffell, Edward (22160)
• Scholes, William (26929)
• Seekings, Herbert (28215)
• Short, Leonard (8941)
• Smith, William Derryman (32664)
• Steward, Arthur Sydney (28214)
• Swift, George (33144)

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 (2 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.