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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 6 September.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 6 September on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Wednesday)
- John Bardgett Missing: Mrs Bardgett, Chapel Street, Appleby, has been notified that her Husband John Bardgett of the Border Regiment has been missing since 1 July. Before the war he was employed on the Midland Railway. [1]
1917 (Thursday)
- Battalion situated in the line experiences some troublesome 'Minnies'[2]
- 2nd Lieut. Arthur Armer and three other ranks are killed.
- Private Gilbert Radley (260256) dies, possibly as a result sickness.
References
- ↑ Published in the Carlisle Journal, 6 September 1916.
- ↑ "Minnies" is a slang term used by the Allied forces for a class of short range mortar called a Minenwerfer (mine launcher) used extensively during the First World War.
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Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the
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 September), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.