Officers (image gallery)

In this gallery is a small collection of images of Battalion officers, from a small booklet titled The Lonsdale Battalion Border Regiment, September 1914 to June 1915 ^[1]^[2]
The original booklet contains six additional pages of introductory text. It mentions the early formation where Hugh Lowther, the 5th Earl of Lonsdale and the Executive Committee decide to raise the "Lonsdale Battalion" in three detachments: Carlisle, Kendal and Workington.^[3] Included also is the move to Blackhall Racecourse, which later became Battalion HQ, the appointments of the Battalion's Commanding Officer P.W. Machell and the Captain and Adjutant, P. G. W. Diggle. High praise for the effectiveness of the Battalion was the order of the day where:

"...the foundations of the Battalion were well and truly laid in a spirit of practical patriotism, with every consideration for local feeling and good comradeship, and for the democratic ideals of the twentieth century worker. 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. From its Commanding Officer to the last joined recruit, all ranks worked together with a will, and in the friendliest spirit of unity, to make a Battalion which should eventually prove itself to be worthy of the best traditions of the British Army."

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Colonel The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale
Lt-Col. P.W. Machell, C.M.G., Commanding Officer of the Battalion
Lt-Col. P.W. Machell, C.M.G.
Major W.W.R. Binning, V.D., Acting 2nd in Command
Capt. T.H. Hodgkinson, A Company
2nd Lieut. J. B. Lowthian, Battalion machine gun officer^[4]
Officers of the Battalion
Officers and Company Staff of C Company
Brigadier-General Collins, Commanding 124th Brigade, Inspecting the Trenches
Gerald Spring-Rice, Esq., Hon. Sec. Executive Committee
Capt. Rivington's Motor
Lord Lonsdale inspecting the Battalion
Lord Lonsdale inspecting the Battalion^[5]

References / notes

↑ Images courtesy of Kevin Johnstone.
↑ These images are digital copies of scans. They have been cropped slightly to remove the white border of the page.
↑ There were four companies in the three detachments:
A and B Companies from East and North Cumberland were based at Blackhall Racecourse in Carlisle,

C Company from Westmorland was based at Kendal, and

D Company from West Cumberland was based at Workington.
↑ 2nd Lieut. J.B. Lowthian is pictured with his sisters, Nora and Gertrude, of the Red Cross.
↑ Lord Lonsdale in full service uniform inspecting the Battalion with (from left to right): Major P. G. W. Diggle, Capt. Smith, Brigadier General Collings and Lt-Col. Machell (to the right of Lord Lonsdale).

[1] Images courtesy of Kevin Johnstone.

[2] These images are digital copies of scans. They have been cropped slightly to remove the white border of the page.

[3] There were four companies in the three detachments:
A and B Companies from East and North Cumberland were based at Blackhall Racecourse in Carlisle,

C Company from Westmorland was based at Kendal, and

D Company from West Cumberland was based at Workington.

[4] 2nd Lieut. J.B. Lowthian is pictured with his sisters, Nora and Gertrude, of the Red Cross.

[5] Lord Lonsdale in full service uniform inspecting the Battalion with (from left to right): Major P. G. W. Diggle, Capt. Smith, Brigadier General Collings and Lt-Col. Machell (to the right of Lord Lonsdale).

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