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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 7 December.
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1914 (Monday)

• The Lonsdale Battalion contemplates giving a special Exhibition of high-class boxing at the Drill Hall, Swifts Lane, Carlisle, on the evening of Boxing Day....it is hoped that the Earl of Lonsdale will be present. The Boxing Competitions recently held at Blackhall Camp have shown there is a great amount of talent in the Battalion.

1915 (Tuesday)

• Molliens-au-Bois: Eight men per platoon practice in the use of live hand grenades under instruction of Lieut. Kemp (Manchester Regiment).
• Remainder of the Battalion is occupied with inspections, close order drill and short route marches.
• Lt-Col. Machell: "It is settled that we go on for practical training, attached to old units, and then relieve them gradually."

1916 (Thursday)

• Berteaucourt: Map reading course under Brigade arrangements, two NCO's per company.
• Battalion parades for practice of inspection for the Commander.
• Major H. Ross assumes command of Battalion during Col. Girdwood's absence on leave.

1917 (Friday)

• Battalion situated at 'Brake Camp.' Companies are at the disposal of Company Commanders.
• George Harry Kemp (28944 Pte.) dies of wounds.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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