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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 7 April.
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1915 (Wednesday)

Events preceding the Lonsdales' arrival in France

• Private T. Carlyle is charged with quitting barracks whilst on sick and absent from retreat.

1916 (Friday)

• Senlis: Situated in billets involved in company training.

1917 (Saturday)

• Battalion leaves Savy at 8pm; arrives Holnon 9.30pm.
• Shelters are dug. Remains as support to two battalions in the front.

1918 (Sunday)

• Purple Line: Day quiet. Advance parties proceed to take over from 2nd King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the No.1 sector of No.3 Brigade.
• Transport is heavily shelled at Bienvillers. Two limbers are smashed and 7 other ranks are wounded.
• Deaths: John Hewitt (4346 Pte.) is killed in action, aged 25.

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Acknowledgements

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 (7 April), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.