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Berles-au-Bois: Usual company training and sports.
At midnight the 11th Battalion (Lonsdale) is amalgamated with the 1/5th Border Regiment.^{[note 2]}
Ten officers and 123 other ranks join the Battalion.

Notes

↑ Training continues for those who are able during the whole period of isolation.
↑ At midnight on 9/10 May the 5th Border Regiment and 11th Border Regiment were amalgamated. After amalgamation a training cadre of ten officers and 51 other ranks was formed and retained the Lonsdale title of the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which continued as a training cadre until total disbandment on 31 July 1918. The remaining cadre then joined the 1/5th Border Regiment and the Lonsdale Battalion ceased to exist.

References

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 (9 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.

[1] Training continues for those who are able during the whole period of isolation.

[2] At midnight on 9/10 May the 5th Border Regiment and 11th Border Regiment were amalgamated. After amalgamation a training cadre of ten officers and 51 other ranks was formed and retained the Lonsdale title of the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which continued as a training cadre until total disbandment on 31 July 1918. The remaining cadre then joined the 1/5th Border Regiment and the Lonsdale Battalion ceased to exist.

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-*[[Battalion]] in isolation camp at Contay Wood (measles) involved in [[Division]]al and [[Brigade]] manoeuvres, training and small working parties.<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref><ref>Training continues during the whole period of isolation.</ref><ref name="wdmay16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, May 1916]]</ref>
+*Contay Wood: Battalion in isolation camp (measles) involved in [[Division]]al and [[Brigade]] manoeuvres, training and small [[working parties]].<ref group="note">Training continues for those who are able during the whole period of isolation.</ref>
-*A draft of 50 [[other ranks]] join the Battalion.<ref name="wdmay16" />
+==1917 (Wednesday)==
-==References / notes==
+*Offoy: Battalion drill and training.
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+==1918 (Thursday)==
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+*Berles-au-Bois: Usual [[company]] training and sports.
+*At midnight the [[11th Battalion (Lonsdale)]] is amalgamated with the [[1/5th Border Regiment]].<ref group="note">At midnight on 9/[[10 May]] the [[5th Border Regiment]] and [[11th Border Regiment]] were amalgamated. After amalgamation a training cadre of ten officers and 51 [[other ranks]] was formed and retained the Lonsdale title of the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which continued as a training cadre until total disbandment on [[31 July]] 1918. The remaining cadre then joined the [[1/5th Border Regiment]] and the Lonsdale Battalion ceased to exist.</ref>
+*Ten officers and 123 [[other ranks]] join the Battalion.
+<noinclude>{{refs-notes}}
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