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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 5 October.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Monday)

• Four men are recruited at Hallbankgate.
• Enlistments: Joseph Bell (13653 L/Sgt.) and Joseph Isles (13654 Sgt.)
• Major Binning letter: "We are taking over a Miniature Range and shall be much obliged if you will kindly quote for Ammunition .22"
• Recruiting Office sends 14 attestation papers.

1915 (Tuesday)

• One man enlisted into F Company.
• "An advance party consisting of 2 officers and 40 other ranks will proceed by rail on ... 8 October and the main body on ... 13 October. ...The rear party will remain at Carlisle for recruiting purposes for the present."
• Codford Camp: Letter to D Company: "... we are doing several Companies’ washing in the Codford Camp and we are offering you the same terms ... 7d per bundle of soldier’s washing. We collect the dirty laundry on Saturday and deliver the same clean again on Thursday. ..."

1916 (Thursday)

• Cambrin Sector: General Staff Officer Colonel Wace visits Battalion HQ at 9:55am, then both the Commanding Officer and Colonel Wace visit the front line trenches.
• At 8pm a strafe on the enemy trenches is carried; gas and smoke is sent over at intervals along with short bombardments by the Battalion's trench mortars, machine gun and rifle fire.

1917 (Friday)

• Battalion is relieved by the 1/6th Lancashire Fusiliers and withdraws to 'Canada Camp'; relief is quiet and completes at 11:30pm.
• Four other ranks are wounded.

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 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.