5 June
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 5 June.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 5 June on The Great War wiki.
1916
- Battalion in Divisional Reserve at Bouzincourt providing working parties[1] for the Royal Engineers.[2]
- Volunteer group led by Lieut. Barnes undertakes a night raid on German trenches at the Leipzig Redoubt. Zero time 11pm.[2][3][4]
- Casualties:- Lt Barnes and 5 other ranks killed, 27 wounded and 1 wounded and missing.[2]
- 11 German prisoners captured. "After the raiders had returned, a strong patrol of Lancashire Fusiliers, with two machine-guns, went out, and remained till dawn in case of counter-attack, and also brought in the wounded and dead. The prisoners are poor specimens and belong to the 6th Company, 99th Reserve Regiment." – Lt-Col. Machell [3]
References / notes
- ↑ A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 11th Battalion War Diary, June 1916
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix B
- ↑ The objective of the night raid was to gain valuable information about the position and layout of the trench system to be attacked on the 1 July.