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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 30 June.
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1916 (Friday)
- Newspaper articles: Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting[1] and Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother[2] are published.
- Battalion situated at Crucifix Corner. No fresh written Battalion Orders are issued. Sometime during the day notes and instructions[3] are issued verbally by Lt-Col. Machell. Each man is thoroughly acquainted with the task that lay before him.
- The Lonsdales move up at 10pm from dug-outs at Crucifix Corner to specifically dug assembly trenches in the thickest (and least damaged) area of Authuille Wood in preparation for Zero Hour on 1 July. A transverse trench used for communication purposes leads the men through the wood. They are hardly shelled during the night and suffer zero casualties.
1917
- Battalion patrol examines the wires. Day is exceptionally quiet.
Notes
References
- ↑ Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 30 June 1916.
- ↑ Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 30 June 1916.
- ↑ This is the final note with instructions from Lt-Col. Machell to the officers commanding the Battalion Companies.
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 June), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.