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 ==1914==
+===Western Front===
-*11 men are recruited at Cummersdale and 3 men at Kirkbride.<ref>{{lowther|recno=279}}</ref>
+*Battle extends northwards round [[Roye]] and [[Arras]].
-*Enlistments: [[Robert Cartner (13380 Pte.)]] and [[George Irving (13367 Pte.)]].
+*New French army concentrated round [[Amiens]] and [[Lens]].
-*[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]] in correspondence to the Cumberland & Westmorland [[Territorial Force]]s’ Association:<br>{{quote-left}}Thanks to the Executive Committee and other patriotic gentlemen at Kendal, Carlisle & Workington we have been able to start long before our central camp could be ready. One thing we will not do & that is ask a man to come to us before we are ready to make him comfortable.
+*French occupy [[Lille]].
+*[[Antwerp]]: Waterworks destroyed.
-:When a man joins the [[Lonsdale Battalion]] he is taking a wise step. [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]], whose name we are proud to bear, has lent us marquees, stoves, cookers, & is helping us in every way. We are a battalion of "Pals", men from different localities in the two Counties soldiering together in sections, [[platoon]]s and [[company|companies]]. – Officers, [[Non-commissioned officer]]s & men, we are all soldiers; badges and stripes do not imply social superiority, but merely indicate our jobs. We are all rungs upon the same ladder. Officers are no good without the [[other ranks|rank and file]], and the rank and file are no good without the officers.
+===Eastern Front===
+*Germans entrench south of [[Kyeltsi]] (south-west [[Poland]]).
-:If I am the Commanding Officer, it is not because I am a better man than anyone else, but because I have been a soldier, & know what I have got to do. True discipline is based on the genuine cooperation of all ranks, and we have all of us joined with the one idea. We are out for King & Country and each has got to do his best.
+===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres===
+*[[Tsing-tau]]: German destroyer sunk in the harbour.
-:There will have to be a lot of drill at first, because drill means system, & we cannot do without it, but drill is not the end, it is only the beginning. On top of drill will come the big thing, the development of the soldier’s sense of duty, the soldier spirit. Once we have got this, everything comes easy, hardship & danger, it is all Duty, and we will do our duty for all we are worth.
+===Political===
+*[[Great Britain]]: Reply of British theologians to German published.
-:As we have written on our posters, the men of Westmorland & Cumberland will enlist together & fight together, & I look with confidence to the Lonsdale Battalion becoming one of the finest fighting [[regiment]]s in the British [[Army]].{{quote-right}} <ref>{{Lowther|recno=42}}</ref>
-==1916==
-*The [[Lonsdales]] have baths in Bethune during the morning; the Commanding Officer visits the [[billet]]s also during the morning.<ref name="wdsep16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, September 1916]]</ref>
-==1917==
-*[[Battalion]] finds working parties.<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref>
-*2nd Lieut. D. Walker and three [[other ranks]] are wounded, two killed and one dies of wounds.<ref name="wdsep17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, September 1917]]</ref>
-*Deaths: [[Walter Clough (28666 Pte.)]], [[James Doyle (33148 L/Sgt.)]] and [[Ralph Langton (260274 Pte.)]].<ref>{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref>
-==References / notes==
-{{refs-lowther}}
+==References/notes==
+{{Gleichen-123}}
+{{reflist}}
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