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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 6 November.
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1914 (Friday)

• Five men are recruited at Rosley. Ten men are recruited at 7 Devonshire Street, Carlisle. A further five men recruited from Alston.
• Letter to Lt-Col. Machell from Fred Lee of Brampton: "I hear you propose visiting Hallbankgate on Wednesday. This will be quite useless. It is Hiring Day at Brampton and all the young men from that District will be here."
• Letter written by Lt-Col. Machell detailing a pre-arranged itinerary for a detachment of West Cumberland Lonsdales, under the command of 2nd Lieut. W.A. Hobson is published in the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian.
• Newspaper article Lonsdale Battalion Coming Tomorrow is published.
• Newspaper article Lonsdale Battalion - New Company to be Formed is published.

1915 (Saturday)

• Major Browne to Lt-Col. Machell: "I hope I shall be able to keep you supplied with a good lot of well trained men. It will, of course, be my main anxiety. ... The local recruiting for the Lonsdales, as you say, seems to have come to an end. One would have liked to have kept it up, but I think it would be folly to rely on it. I might find myself unable to meet your requirements. Lord knows how soon you may require drafts. I have sent Binning to Carlisle to stir things up, & later I shall go myself. We are now to get one third of the recruits enlisting in the counties, until we are full up."

1916 (Monday)

• Battalion situated at La Vicgone taking part in Brigade Field Day.
• Lonsdales advance from a position south of Val de Maison and marches towards Beauval, breaking into artillery formation on the way.
• Position south of Beauval is assaulted, breaking into extended order at Ferme du Rosel.

1917 (Tuesday)

• Battalion situated in the Roubrouck Area involved in training.

1918 (Wednesday)

• 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 (6 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.