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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 5 November.
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1914 (Thursday)

• Recruiting Office sends one attestation to Camp. Two men are recruited at Easton. Two men are recruited at Penrith.
• Equipment ordered: 1 lifting jack, 1 Maltese cart, 3 wagons, 2 water carts. Equipment ordered for horses: 6 nose bags, 2 harness brushes, 6 horse brushes, 6 curry combs, 1 oil pan, 6 horse rubbers, 1 pair trimming scissors, 23 sponges, 1 saddle blanket, 2 harnesses, 1 pair of horse clippers, 3 saddlery packs.
• Equipment ordered: 2 small lamps, 8 gas bags, 2 cases of pencils, 2 bottles cleansing gas, 2 tin cans, 4 retorts, 2 spanners, 5 message books, 106 signal flags.
• Lt-Col. Machell’s telegram to Drill Hall, Workington: "Please send no more recruit under full five feet four in stockings have had to reject two today."
• Lt-Col. Machell’s telegram to Drill Hall, Workington: "...please send no more recruit under full five feet four in stockings have had to reject two today ..."
• Letter from G.J. Goodman of Brampton "....it would be far better if the men could get to Brampton about 9.30 in the morning and catch the youths as they come into town [for the hirings] and before they are signed on for another 6 months, and that it would be a help if a rousing speaker could accompany them, and say a word in the market place....I am exceedingly anxious that some should be caught not only for king and country, but for honour, righteousness and freedom."

1915 (Friday)

• Five men are transferred to 3rd Battalion of the Border Regiment as they are classified fit for home service only.

1916 (Sunday)

• Battalion situated at La Vicogne involved in general parades of instruction under Commanding Officer, including extended order drill etc.

1917 (Monday)

• Battalion situated in the Roubrouck Area involved in training.

1918 (Tuesday)

• Deaths: John Barker (15427 Pte.)

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 (5 November), 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.