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==1915 (Sunday)==
*[[Battalion]] total strength of 1,152 [[non-commissioned officer]]s and [[other ranks]].
*French fail in attack on [[Boureuilles]] ([[Argonne]]), but carry a height near Cernay ([[Alsace]]).
*Russians occupy [[Suczava]] ([[Bukovina]]).
*Austrians occupy [[Ada Tsiganlia]], an island near [[Belgrade]].
*Very heavy fighting at [[Sarikamish]], and at [[Ardahan]] ([[Transcaucasia]]).
*Arrest of Cardinal Mercier ([[Belgium]]) for Pastoral Letter.
*French Government issue further revised list of contraband (see [[6 November]], [[1914]]).<ref name="hgw">{{HGW|page=18}}</ref>
 
==1916 (Monday)==
*In [[billet]]s at Aveluy involved in [[fatigue duty]] for the {{wl|Royal Engineers}}.
*Development of Russian offensive in [[Bukovina]] and eastern [[Galicia]] and [[Poland]].
*The Rev. A.J.W. Crosse, writes to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]:<br>Dear Sir, Please accept my grateful thanks for sending a football for [[11th Battalion Border Regiment Nominal Roll, November 1915 (D Company)|D Company]], 11th Borders. I hope we shall soon be having some inter-Company matches in the [[Lonsdale Battalion|Lonsdale Battalion]], when D Company, which is noted for it’s forcefulness and dash, will, no doubt, do as well in the football field as it is doing in the [[trench]]es. If you want to see some real ‘muddied oafs’ come here when D Company comes out of the trenches – but they are merry still. Believe me, very heartily yours.<ref>''[[Lonsdales got Their Football]]''. Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published [[14 January]], 1916.</ref>
*Anti-Ally press campaign in [[Greece]]; Greek Government protests against arrest of Consuls at [[Salonika]].
 
==Notes1917==
*Battalion situated at Puchevillers involved in [[working parties]] and general training.
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*Deaths: [[George Henry Davies (27727 Pte.)]]
==References==
 
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==1918==
==Acknowledgements==
*Battalion situated at Tournehem. [[Brigade]] holiday.
{{acknowledgements}}
 
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Revision as of 16:13, 1 March 2020

January

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 3 January.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 3 January on The Great War wiki.

1915

1916

  • In billets at Aveluy involved in fatigue duty for the Royal Engineers.
  • The Rev. A.J.W. Crosse, writes to the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian:
    Dear Sir, Please accept my grateful thanks for sending a football for D Company, 11th Borders. I hope we shall soon be having some inter-Company matches in the Lonsdale Battalion, when D Company, which is noted for it’s forcefulness and dash, will, no doubt, do as well in the football field as it is doing in the trenches. If you want to see some real ‘muddied oafs’ come here when D Company comes out of the trenches – but they are merry still. Believe me, very heartily yours.[1]

1917

1918

  • Battalion situated at Tournehem. Brigade holiday.
Notes
References
  1. Lonsdales got Their Football. Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 14 January, 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 (3 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.
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