8 May

May
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 8 May.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1915 (Saturday)

1916 (Monday)

1917 (Tuesday)

  • Offoy: Parades cancelled owing to rain. Training continues in billets: musketry, bayonet fighting and physical training.

1918 (Wednesday)

  • Berles-au-Bois: Usual company training and afternoon recreation.
Notes
  1. The ground there is found unsuitable for Brigade Training. The whole of the 97th Brigade proceeds on to Wensleydale, Yorkshire on 22 June.
  2. Training continues for those who are able during the whole period of isolation.
References
  1. Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/?
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 (8 May), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.
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