2 October
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 2 October.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 2 October on The Great War wiki.
1914
- 6 men are recruited at Drumburgh; a further 2 men are recruited at Wigton.[1]
- Newspaper article: Notes of the Week (Editorial about Raising the Lonsdales).[2]
1916
1917
- Battalion holds the left sub-sector of Lombardzyde Sector – dispositions are unchanged; 14 other ranks wounded, 1 other rank killed.[4]
1918
- Deaths: William Osborne (13583 Pte.).[5]
References / notes
Material from Timeline/Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915) are sourced from the DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Entries from this timeline are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther and are not available under the license of this site. Please do not publish these extracts on other publicly visible media without prior permission from the copyright holder.
- ↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/279
- ↑ Workington Star and Harrington Guardian, published 6 November, 1914.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 11th Battalion War Diary, October 1916
- ↑ 11th Battalion War Diary, October 1917
- ↑ Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) / Commonwealth War Graves Commission