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Letter to Major Binning: "Free Bathing at the Public Baths. I do not see how it is possible for the Corporation to increase the facilities for this Battalion bathing. We are now providing accommodation for 856 of your men to attend the swimming baths per week and if this does not provide for each man having a bath say once in seven days, I think the only way to meet the increased numbers will be for you to arrange for them to go say once in eight days or possibly nine." ^[1]
Charge sheet: Private H. Airey is absent without leave from tattoo for 30 minutes. Punishment given is two days confinement to barracks.^[2]
Punishments in detention: W. Johnstone (15311) of B Company; H. Allen (13749) of C Company.^[3]
Forfeiture of pay for absence: W. Bell (16441), T. Minshaw (16417), G. Fawcett (15417), G. Irving (13367), A. Ferguson (15336) and T. Cape (13873).^[3]
Discharges on medical grounds: W. Pickering (13731), A. Robinson (13441) and W. Bell (13642) of C Company and N.H. McKenzie (13859) of D Company.^[3]
Enlistments to E Company: Randolph Cameron (17561), D. Henderson (17562), G. Jamieson (17563) and John Sisson (17564).^[3]

1916 (Sunday)

Aveluy: In billets providing fatigue duties for the Royal Engineers.
J. Diamond [rank not given] writes a letter to the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian saying:
"Dear Sir, I am pleased to say I received your parcel of cigarettes and twist whilst in the trenches last week, and I desire to thank you and your readers for the kindness in sending out to us smokes. I need not tell you how much they are appreciated by all the boys out here. We have had a few more casualties during the past week, so we hope for the best when we go in again." ^[4]

1917 (Tuesday)

Beaumont Hamel: In dug-outs. Standing-to^{[note 1]} at 2am.

1918 (Wednesday)

Situated on the front line. Generally quiet with very infrequent shelling. No casualties reported.

Notes

↑ Stand-to-Arms, or simply Stand-to, was the process of keeping watch in the front line trenches, observing for enemy movements and activity. Each man standing-to maintains a loaded rifle and fixed bayonet whilst standing on the trench fire step in readiness for an unexpected enemy attack.

References

↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/53
↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/108
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/135
↑ Had a Few More Casualties but Hoping for a Rest – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 11 February, 1916.

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 (30 January), 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.

[5] Stand-to-Arms, or simply Stand-to, was the process of keeping watch in the front line trenches, observing for enemy movements and activity. Each man standing-to maintains a loaded rifle and fixed bayonet whilst standing on the trench fire step in readiness for an unexpected enemy attack.

[1] Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/53

[2] Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/108

[lowther135-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/135

[4] Had a Few More Casualties but Hoping for a Rest – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 11 February, 1916.

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 ==1915 (Saturday)==
 *Letter to [[William Walter Riddell Binning|Major Binning]]: "Free Bathing at the Public Baths. I do not see how it is possible for the Corporation to increase the facilities for this Battalion bathing. We are now providing accommodation for 856 of your men to attend the swimming baths per week and if this does not provide for each man having a bath say once in seven days, I think the only way to meet the increased numbers will be for you to arrange for them to go say once in eight days or possibly nine." <ref>{{lowther|recno=53}}</ref>
-*Charge sheet: Private H. Airey absent without leave from tattoo for 30 minutes - 2 days confined to barracks.<ref>{{lowther|recno=108}}</ref>
+*Charge sheet: Private H. Airey is absent without leave from tattoo for 30 minutes. Punishment given is two  days confinement to barracks.<ref>{{lowther|recno=108}}</ref>
-*Enlistments to E Company: Randolph Cameron (17561), D. Henderson (17562), G. Jamieson (17563) and John Sisson (17564).<ref name="lowther135">{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref>
 *Punishments in detention: W. Johnstone (15311) of B Company; H. Allen (13749) of C Company.<ref name="lowther135" />
 *Forfeiture of pay for absence: W. Bell (16441), T. Minshaw (16417), G. Fawcett (15417), G. Irving (13367), A. Ferguson (15336) and T. Cape (13873).<ref name="lowther135" />
 *Discharges on medical grounds: W. Pickering (13731), A. Robinson (13441) and W. Bell (13642) of C Company and N.H. McKenzie (13859) of D Company.<ref name="lowther135" />
+*Enlistments to E Company: Randolph Cameron (17561), D. Henderson (17562), G. Jamieson (17563) and John Sisson (17564).<ref name="lowther135">{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref>
 ==1916 (Sunday)==
-*In [[billet]]s at Aveluy providing [[fatigue duty|fatigue duties]] for the {{wl|Royal Engineers}}.<ref name="wdjan16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, January 1916]]</ref>
+*Aveluy: In [[billet]]s providing [[fatigue duty|fatigue duties]] for the {{wl|Royal Engineers}}.
-*J. Diamond [he does not give his rank] writes a letter to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]] saying:<br>"Dear Sir, I am pleased to say I received your parcel of cigarettes and twist whilst in the trenches last week, and I desire to thank you and your readers for the kindness in sending out to us smokes. I need not tell you how much they are appreciated by all the boys out here. We have had a few more casualties during the past week, so we hope for the best when we go in again." <ref>''[[Had a Few More Casualties but Hoping for a Rest]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published [[11 February]], 1916.</ref>
+*J. Diamond [rank not given] writes a letter to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]] saying:<br>"Dear Sir, I am pleased to say I received your parcel of cigarettes and twist whilst in the trenches last week, and I desire to thank you and your readers for the kindness in sending out to us smokes. I need not tell you how much they are appreciated by all the boys out here. We have had a few more casualties during the past week, so we hope for the best when we go in again." <ref>''[[Had a Few More Casualties but Hoping for a Rest]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published [[11 February]], 1916.</ref>
 ==1917 (Tuesday)==
-*[[Lonsdale Battalion|Battalion]] is situated in [[dug-out]]s at Beaumont Hamel. Standing-to<ref group="note">Stand-to-Arms, or simply Stand-to, was the process of keeping watch in the front line [[trench]]es, observing for enemy movements and activity. Each man standing-to maintains a loaded rifle and fixed [[bayonet]] whilst standing on the trench fire step in readiness for an unexpected enemy attack.</ref> at 2am.<ref name="wdjan17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, January 1917]]</ref>
+*Beaumont Hamel: In [[dug-out]]s. Standing-to<ref group="note">Stand-to-Arms, or simply Stand-to, was the process of keeping watch in the front line [[trench]]es, observing for enemy movements and activity. Each man standing-to maintains a loaded rifle and fixed [[bayonet]] whilst standing on the trench fire step in readiness for an unexpected enemy attack.</ref> at 2am.
 ==1918 (Wednesday)==
-*Battalion is situated on the front line. Generally quiet with very infrequent [[shell]]ing. No casualties reported.<ref name="wdjan18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, January 1918]]</ref>
+*Situated on the front line. Generally quiet with very infrequent [[shell]]ing. No casualties reported.
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