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<div style="font-size:250%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">Welcome to the Lonsdale Battalion</div>
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<div style="text-align:right;"><small>{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}} – {{LOCALTIME}} ([[w:British Summer Time|BST]])</small><!--or (w:Greenwich Mean Time|GMT)--></div><div style="font-size:250%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">Welcome to the Lonsdale Battalion</div>
<div style="font-size:150%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;'>The home of the<br>11th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment in the First World War</div>
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">''Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense'' — Evil be to Him who Evil Thinks</div>
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| style="padding:5px 30px 5px 30px; vertical-align:top; font-style:italic;"|All will be more comfortable when our division takes over. The Commanding Officer's are well enough off always, apparently, having pretty good dug-outs and a chance of drying up, but I feel very bad about the men, and one can’t do enough for them.<br><span style="font-style:normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt. Col. P.W. Machell]], Commanding Officer</span>
| style="padding:5px 30px 5px 30px; vertical-align:top; font-style:italic;"|For the first six months there was never a night that the C.O. did not go round the trenches. Not a casual walk round, but four or fives hours out…We had the name of being the best Infantry Battalion in France, among any of those who had to do with us.<br><span style="font-style:normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—Major P.G.W. Diggle, 2nd in Command</span>
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| content = <p align="justify">The Lonsdales'''11th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment''', also known as the '''Lonsdale Battalion''' werewas a 'Pals' battalion formed of three detachments at Carlisle, Kendal and Workington by the [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Earl of Lonsdale]] and an Executive Committee. The Battalion became a well-trained, disciplined unit of volunteers answeringthat answered Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's call to arms - to fight for King and Country. Men that had grown up together enlisted together and {{quote-left}}during these formative days of the Battalion’s earliest history it became clear to everyone in the Border Counties that this really was a Battalion of 'Pals,' of comrades, and of Border men.{{quote-right}}&nbsp;-&nbsp;[[The Lonsdale Battalion Border Regiment, September 1914 to June 1915]]</p><span style="float:right;">[[The Lonsdale Battalion - an introduction|Interested? Get started here]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Group font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=The Lonsdale Battalion - an introduction]] </span>{{clear}}
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| content = <p align="justify">On this day is a listing of historical daily events associated with the movements actions of the [[Lonsdale Battalion]], from formation inbetween 1914 through to its disbandment in &ndash;1918. The Lonsdales were a 'Pals' battalion, volunteers answering Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's call to arms - to fight for King and Country. The actions of this Pals battalion throughout its four year's existence are included here as daily events 'on this day'. In this case, anAn event is thea term used broadly to describe a particular action or set of actions. Ansuch event could beas: a reference to bayonet training, digging entrenchments, receiving orders by the commanding officer, detailed fighting on the front line, orfighting itand coulda bevariety aof simple reportreports onincluding casualty figures, among many others. → </psmall><spanPlease style="float:right;">[[{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}|Onnote this dayinformation {{CURRENTDAY}}refreshes {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}]]&nbsp;{{·}}&nbsp;[[About 'on thisevery day'|Find out more]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Calendar font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Lonsdale Battalion on this day...]]</spansmall>{{clear}}
<span style="font-size:130%; text-align:center;">On this day in history ([[{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}]])</span>{{:{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}}
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WAR QUOTESDIARY
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| content = <p align="justify">ReadSome aregimental selectionwar ofdiaries quotesare fromsparse variousin sourcedetail, whilst others are materialsdescriptive. TheToday, wordsthey offerare thepivotal readerto alearning glimpse intoabout the daily lives of the men and officers and the verybitter thingsfighting they bore witness to first-handendured. QuotesThe from the BattalionLonsdale's war diariesdiary giveoffers a uniquecomplexity insightof todaily thereports mundaneon dutiesoperations, ofintelligence trenchsummaries, warfarecasualties, themaps horrorsand ofvarious battleother andappendices the praising ofcovering their fellow brotherstime in theFrance course of theirand dutiesFlanders.</p><span style="float:right;">[[Lonsdale Battalion quoteswar diary|The Lonsdalebattalion war quotesdiary]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Quote rightBook font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Lonsdale Battalion quoteswar diary]]</span>{{clear}}
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ROLL OF HONOUR
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| content = <p align="justify">The 11th Battalion Roll of Honour has been transcribed as it was printed in HMSO’s ''[[Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment]]''. This is a complete list of men killed whilst serving in the Lonsdale Battalion during the war. Many menof listedthe soldiers herethat served in manythe [[Lonsdale Battalion]] also served in other battalions of the Border Regiment, some even transferring from entirely different regiments, the most common onesof these being the Herefordshire, Essex and Liverpool Regiments.</p><span style="float:right;">[[Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour|The roll of honour]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:List alt font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour]]</span>{{clear}}▼
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| content = <p align="justify">{{quote|text=''All will be more comfortable when our division takes over. The Commanding Officer's are well enough off always, apparently, having pretty good dug-outs and a chance of drying up, but I feel very bad about the men, and one can’t do enough for them.''|person=[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt. Col. P.W. Machell]], Commanding the Battalion|source=[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]}}{{quote|text=''For the first six months there was never a night that the C.O. did not go round the trenches. Not a casual walk round, but four or fives hours out…We had the name of being the best Infantry Battalion in France, among any of those who had to do with us.''|person=Major [[P. G. W. Diggle]], 2nd in Command|source=Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France}}
Read a selection of quotes from various source materials. The words offer a glimpse into the lives of the men and the sights they bore witness to first-hand. Quotes from the [[Lonsdale Battalion war diary|Battalion War Diary]] give a unique insight to the mundane duties of trench warfare, the horrors of battle and the praising of fellow brothers in the course of their duties.</p><span style="float:right;">[[Lonsdale Battalion quotes|The Lonsdale quotes]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Quote right font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Lonsdale Battalion quotes]]</span>{{clear}}
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| content = <p align="justify">Peruse over a collection of images of the Lonsdales during their initial training period at [[Blackhall Camp]], Carlisle, before being shipped over to France. See the men in their civvies lining up for roll call, engaged in bayonet training and aiming drills, digging entrenchments and physical exercise. Plus, see photos of officers, individuals, groups, obituaries, cap badges and other insignia.</p><center><gallery mode=packed-hover heights=150>
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File:Grandstand at Blackhall Racecourse.jpg|The grandstand at [[Blackhall Racecourse]]
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File:Percy Wilfred Machell 01.jpg|[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P.W. Machell]]
File:Digging entrenchments.jpg|thumb|200px|Digging entrenchments
File:Inspection by Lord Lonsdale 02.jpg|thumb|200px|Inspection of the Battalion by [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]]▼
File:Physical_drill.jpg|Physical drill
File:Aiming_drill.jpg|Aiming drill
▲File:Inspection by Lord Lonsdale 02.jpg|thumb|200px|Inspection of the Battalion by [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]]
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<p align="justify">Peruse over a collection of images of the Lonsdales during their initial training period at [[Blackhall Camp]], Carlisle, before being shipped over to France. See the men in their civvies lining up for roll call, engaged in bayonet training and aiming drills, digging entrenchments and physical exercise. Plus, see photos of officers, individuals, groups, obituaries, cap badges and other insignia.</p><span style="float:right;">[[Lonsdale Battalion image gallery|The image galleries]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Camera font awesome.svg|top|20px|link=Lonsdale Battalion image gallery]]</span>{{clear}}
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NEWSPAPER WAR DIARYARTICLES
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| content = <p align="justify">Several Cumberland and Westmorland newspapers reported on the Lonsdales between 1914 &ndash; 1918. Reports on the war, notes of the week, the terrible conditions at the front, casualties and obituaries, to name a few provide the reader with a glimpse into a world where hardships were a fact of life, and the horrors of war and losing your friends were a daily routine.<br>Living dayHere's toone dayfine surrounded by death and the fearexample of nevera seeingchap loved ones again made the propaganda drive all the more effective as those atwriting home learned about theirhis sons and fathers fighting for the freedoms that manyexperience of usbeing today take for grantedwounded. The press in recent times, however, enlighten us with stark reminders of bygone times and more often than not, heartwarming tributes of those who served over 100 years ago.</p><span style="float:right; padding-right:15px 15px;">[[Newspaper articles|Lonsdales in the press]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Globe font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Newspaper articles]]</spanhr>{{clear}}▼
| content = <p align="justify">Some regimental war diaries are sparse in detail, whilst others are descriptive. Today, they are pivotal to learning about the daily lives of the men and the bitter fighting they endured. The Lonsdale's war diary offers a complexity of daily reports on operations, intelligence summaries, casualties, maps and various other appendices covering their time in France and Flanders.</p><span style="float:right;">[[Lonsdale Battalion war diary|The battalion war diary]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Book font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Lonsdale Battalion war diary]]</span>{{clear}}
{{Quote-news|text='''A BIT OF ROTTEN LUCK'''
 
'''Lonsdales Wounded On Way To Trenches'''
 
Corporal J. Smith, [[Lonsdale Battalion|11th Borders]] in a letter to his parents on [[19 December|December 19th]], says: -<br>
Just a few lines to let you know that I have been wounded, but I am going on champion.
A piece of shrapnel went clean through my right thigh while I was going into the trenches with my mates. There were two of us knocked out at the same time. We had a bit of rotten luck that day, and the trenches are four feet deep with mud and water. It was very hard for us, seeing we were new to the place. I went through an operation on Wednesday night… They took the tube out of my wound today. I expect I’ll be sent home any time about Christmas… The doctors and nurses are very nice to the wounded. They will do anything to help you… How is everybody at Workington? Give my kind regards to all. |source=[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]|date=Published [[24 December]], 1915}}
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Living day to day surrounded by death and the fear of never seeing loved ones again made the propaganda drive all the more effective as those at home learned about their sons and fathers fighting for the freedoms that many of us today take for granted. The press in recent times, however, enlighten us with stark reminders of bygone times and more often than not, heartwarming tributes of those who served over 100 years ago.</p><span style="float:right; padding-right:15px 15px;">[[Newspaper articles|Lonsdales in the press]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Globe font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Newspaper articles]]</span>{{clear}}
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| content = <p align="justify">Interested in helping out around here? There is always something to write, discover and learn about the [[The Lonsdale Battalion - an introduction|Lonsdale Battalion]] and the [[Border Regiment]]. As you can see from the menu on the left there are several projects that are a work-in-progress. Take a look at the [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes made to the site]] to see what has been happening lately.
▲ | content = <p align="justify">The 11th Battalion Roll of Honour has been transcribed as it was printed in HMSO’s ''[[Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment]]''. This is a complete list of men killed whilst serving in the Lonsdale Battalion during the war. Many men listed here served in many other regiments, the most common ones being the Herefordshire, Essex and Liverpool Regiments.</p><span style="float:right;">[[Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour|The roll of honour]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:List alt font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour]]</span>{{clear}}
 
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Our largest on-going project is the [[Lonsdale Battalion on this day...]] project. This is a listing of historical events associated with the actions of the Lonsdales, from formation in 1914 through to its disbandment in 1918. Whenever we learn something new and interesting about the Lonsdales we like to include what we can in the interest of free and accessible knowledge. Every project, however, no matter how large or small is just as important as the next, which is why they are of equal value and interest. Currently there are many other [[The Lonsdale Battalion:Site projects|site projects]] either on the go or waiting to be started, and this is where we need your help in making these available for everyone.
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If you are interested in helping out you can [[The Lonsdale Battalion:Administrator's noticeboard|contact us]] with any questions you may have about any of the projects. Alternatively, if you have spotted any errors and omissions, would like to create news pages or simply edit some existing ones, you can do so by [[Special:CreateAccount|creating a new account]] and off you go. We look forward to seeing you around.
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▲ | content = <p align="justify">Several Cumberland and Westmorland newspapers reported on the Lonsdales between 1914 &ndash; 1918. Reports on the war, notes of the week, the terrible conditions at the front, casualties and obituaries, to name a few provide the reader with a glimpse into a world where hardships were a fact of life, and the horrors of war and losing your friends were a daily routine.<br>Living day to day surrounded by death and the fear of never seeing loved ones again made the propaganda drive all the more effective as those at home learned about their sons and fathers fighting for the freedoms that many of us today take for granted. The press in recent times, however, enlighten us with stark reminders of bygone times and more often than not, heartwarming tributes of those who served over 100 years ago.</p><span style="float:right; padding-right:15px 15px;">[[Newspaper articles|Lonsdales in the press]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:Globe font awesome.svg|right|20px|link=Newspaper articles]]</span>{{clear}}
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