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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 7 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 7 March on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Tuesday)
- Battalion at the front in the E1 sector near Hénencourt.
- Trenches improving after bad weather. Small shelter in support line blown in burying three men.
- Casualties: One shell shock, two killed (4 NCO's killed). One NCO wounded by piece of an H.E.[a] shell.
- Deaths: John Cherry (13681 L/Cpl.) / James Elliott (15335 Pte.)
1917 (Wednesday)
- Battalion located in the Ney Sector, opposite Fouquescourt in the front line system.
- Patrols are sent out and the clearing of trenches carries on.
1918 (Thursday)
- Situated in the line near Charpentier. Artillery active in 'Ajax Ho', 'Suez' and 'Veldhoek' trenches.
- Battalion is relieved at night by the 10th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Relief is complete by 11p.m.
- Moves into 'Abri Wood' in Brigade Reserve.
Notes
- ↑ High Explosive is an extremely powerful chemical explosive similar to TNT, combusting violently, instantaneously, and causing widespread damage.
References
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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 March), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.