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Battalion situated at Nieuport. Slight shelling of area up to 10am.
Enemy aerial activity in early hours of morning.
Shelling slightly heavier during afternoon and evening with several casualties. About five 8" shells per minute. Night much quieter.

1918 (Sunday)

Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment (33rd American Division) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.^{[note 1]}

Notes

↑ The Lonsdales were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On 29 July, 1918, the war diary states: “orders received for WO's, NCO's and men of the cadres to proceed to join the 1/5th Border Regiment (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.” The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on 31 July.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[1] The Lonsdales were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On 29 July, 1918, the war diary states: “orders received for WO's, NCO's and men of the cadres to proceed to join the 1/5th Border Regiment (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.” The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on 31 July.

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-==1916==
+==1916 (Friday)==
-*Newspaper article: ''[[War Items - Colonel Machell Killed & Batch of Wounded]]''.<ref>''[[War Items - Colonel Machell Killed & Batch of Wounded]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published 7 July 1916.</ref>
+*Newspaper articles ''[[War Items - Colonel Machell Killed & Batch of Wounded|Colonel Machell Killed & Batch of Wounded]]'' and ''[[Wounded Three Times - Ran with Bombs]]'' are published in the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]].
+*Battalion reorganising into two [[company|companies]] in Contay Wood.
-*Newspaper article: ''[[Wounded Three Times - Ran with Bombs]]''.<ref>''[[Wounded Three Times - Ran with Bombs]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published 7 July 1916.</ref>
-*Battalion reorganising into two companies in Contay Wood. Battalion strength is 11 officers and 480 other ranks.<ref name="wdjuly16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1916]]</ref>
+*Battalion strength is 11 officers and 480 [[other ranks]].
+*Deaths: [[John Davidson (15344 L/Cpl.)]]
-==1917==
+==1917 (Saturday)==
-*Battalion situated at Nieuport. Slight shelling of our area up to 10am.<ref name="wdjuly17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1917]]</ref>
+*Battalion situated at Nieuport. Slight [[shell]]ing of area up to 10am.
-*Enemy aerial activity in early hours of morning.<ref name="wdjuly17" />
+*Enemy aerial activity in early hours of morning.
-*Shelling slightly heavier during afternoon and evening with several casualties. About five 8" shells per minute. Night much quieter.<ref name="wdjuly17" />
+*Shelling slightly heavier during afternoon and evening with several casualties. About five 8" shells per minute. Night much quieter.
-==1918==
+==1918 (Sunday)==
+*Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment (33rd American Division) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.<ref group="note">The [[Lonsdales]] were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On [[29 July]], 1918, the [[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1918|war diary states]]: {{quote-left}}orders received for WO's, [[NCO]]'s and men of the cadres to proceed to join the [[1/5th Border Regiment]] (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.{{quote-right}} The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on [[31 July]].</ref>
-*Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion 130th Infantry Regiment (USA) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.<ref name="wdjuly18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1918]]</ref>
+<br/>
+{{notes}}<!--{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-{{table-deaths
- |1914={{clear}}
- |1915={{clear}}
- |1916={{clear}}
-*[[John Davidson (15344 L/Cpl.)|Davidson, John (15344 L/Cpl.)]]
- |1917={{clear}}
- |1918={{clear}}
-}}
-{{refs-table}}
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