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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 4 September.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 4 September on The Great War wiki.
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- Battalion has comparatively quiet day in the front line; trenches consist of breast works in a poor state of repair.
- There is a break in the line between the Left Company Front and Right Company Front due to a damaged bridge over a large dyke.
- William Fothergill (24750 Pte.)[a] dies in Germany as a prisoner of war, and Ernest Wymes (17418) dies of wounds.
Notes
- ↑ William Fothergill (24750 Pte.) date of death is listed as 4 September in Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) and 5 September on CWGC.
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Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the
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 (4 September), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.