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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 3 October.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 3 October on The Great War wiki.
1914 (Saturday)
- George Lawson (13648 Pte.) enlists.
1916 (Tuesday)
- Battalion finds fatigues for the Royal Engineers during the morning.
- No parades this day owing to the wet weather.
- In afternoon the Battalion practices crossing craters; General Rycroft is present.
1917 (Wednesday)
- Battalion holds the left sub-sector of Lombardzyde Sector - dispositions are unchanged.
- Two other ranks are killed, 8 are wounded.
- Casualties: Harrie Blakey (35005 Cpl.), Matthew Farrar (33525 Pte.) and Joseph Gaskell (20029 Pte.)
1918 (Thursday)
- Deaths: Frederick Pinder (19254)
References
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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 (3 October), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.