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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 31 December.
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1914 (Thursday)
- Bedding return for A Company: blankets 828, mattresses 303 bolsters [pillows] 303.[1]
- Letter from Lt-Col. Machell: "....I consulted the Committee of the Cumberland Infirmary, who have agreed to allow men of the Battalion under my command to occupy up to thirty beds provided that the cases are suitable for admission, and that there is room." [2]
1915 (Friday)
- Newspaper articles A Perpetual Stream of Bullets and Footballs and Cards to Hand are published in the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian.
- Battalion is relieved by the 17th Highland Light Infantry. They move to billets at Aveluy, close behind the lines.
- Fatigue duties for the Royal Engineers.
1916 (Sunday)
- Battalion situated at Puchevillers. Church parade.
- 150 other ranks involved in working parties on railhead etc.[a]
- Fitting and testing of new small box respirators.
1917 (Monday)
- Battalion situated at Tournehem.
- Companies at the disposal of Company Commanders.
- Cleaning of billets and reconnoitring training grounds.
Notes
- ↑ A railhead, depending on context, has two distinct meanings: 1) the topmost part of the rail profile on which the wheels run and, 2) a terminus of a railway line, especially one that is unfinished or if a terminus interfaces with other modes of transport.
References
Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)
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 (31 December), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.