2 December: Difference between revisions

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

References

↑ Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[“lons15”-1] Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France

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-==1915==
+==1915 (Thursday)==
-*[[Battalion]] marches to Molliens-au-Bois; arrives and [[billet]]s at 12:30pm.<ref name=“wdnovdec15”>[[11th Battalion War Diary, November to December 1915]]</ref>
+*[[Battalion]] marches to Molliens-au-Bois; arrives and [[billet]]s at 12:30pm.
 *Involved in lectures, inspections and physical exercises.<ref name=“lons15”>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref>
-==1916==
+==1916 (Saturday)==
-*Battalion is situated at Berteaucourt. Church parade and inspection of billets by Commanding Officer.<ref name="wddec16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, December 1916]]</ref>
+*Berteaucourt: Church parade and inspection of billets by Commanding Officer.
-==1917==
+==1917 (Sunday)==
-*Battalion makes a night attack on German positions South of Westroosebeek in conjunction with remaining units of [[97th Brigade]] and 2 units of the 96th Brigade.<ref name="wddec17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, December 1917]]</ref>
+*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.
-*At [[Zero hour]] - 1.55am - the [[Lonsdales]] takes their objectives but two leapfrogging [[company|companies]] fall back before dawn onto subsidiary objectives, which are held all day until the enemy launches a counter attack at 4.30pm. The Lonsdale then fall back onto the old line.<ref name="wddec17" />
+*Two leapfrogging [[company|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====
 {{Lonsdale Casualties 2 December 1917}}{{clear}}
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