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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 30 May.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 30 May on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Sunday)
- Enlistments: Richard Jefferson (19460 Sgt.)
1916 (Tuesday)
- The 96th Brigade is relieved by the 97th Brigade. The front is fairly quiet.
- Battalion situated in the Authuille Sector. They are relieved by the 15th Lancashire Fusiliers: left half Battalion billeting in Bouzincourt, the right half bivouac in Aveluy Wood.
- One other rank is killed, possibly Thomas William Potts (21450), and four are wounded.
1917 (Wednesday)
- Battalion leaves Domart and marches to Villers Bretonneaux, taking over billets.
1918 (Thursday)
- Inspection as 29 May, this time by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig.
- Training so far has been in: Musketry (on and off range), Marching, Bombing, Bayonet fighting (on and off assault course), Lewis machine-gun maintenance and firing.
- Field work demonstration and practice (by demonstration platoon of 5th Border Regiment). Progress is satisfactory.
- Deaths: Thomas Schofield (35749).
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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 (30 May), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.