Lonsdale Battalion on this day...
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On this day, 21 August[edit]
1916[edit]
- Battalion is relieved in the trenches by the 15th Lancashire Fusiliers; commences at 1:30pm and completes at 4:30pm.[1]
- Battalion takes over billets in Bethune.[1]
- Deaths: Edward Bainbridge Bone (15280 Pte.).[2]
1917[edit]
- Battalion went to Bray-Dunes at 9:00am for Range Practice and bathing; returns to billets in Ghyvelde at 6:00pm.[3]
References / notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916
- ↑ Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) cross referenced with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database.
- ↑ 11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917
