6 October

Sep

1 September

October

Nov

1 November

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

1

2

3

4

Other dates

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 6 October.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Tuesday)

• Three men are recruited at Aikton.
• Enlistments: William David Nash (13633 Pte.)
• Battalion Orders include "NOTICE: Smoking in the Rooms is strictly forbidden and any man caught will be severely punished."
• Letter from Major Binning to G.D. Oliver [architect]: "....receipt of supply of Cigarettes and Tobacco for the men here...."

1915 (Wednesday)

• Letter form General Sitwell to Lonsdale: "... I was greatly impressed with the excellence of the Race Course Camp at Carlisle, both in facilities for training and in comfort for the men, the latter largely due to great generosity on your part ..." [279]
• 126 men on 5 days’ leave.
• Seven men are posted to the Divisional Cyclist Company.

1916 (Friday)

• Battalion situated in the Cambrin Sector. The day is comparatively quiet.
• The Commanding Officer visits the front line trenches during morning.
• At 11:45am a bombardment of the enemy trenches is carried out by Stokes and 2 trench mortars.
• Enemy's trenches are considerably damaged. There is no retaliation.

1917 (Saturday)

• The Lonsdales march to Adinkerke, then proceeds to Rosendael by barge and finally by route march to Teteghem; arrives about 8pm.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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