Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix D

Transcription. Originally compiled by Lady Valda Machell

Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) – September 1914 to July 1916

Main chapters

In England (prelude to war) In France (war diary extracts)

Appendices

Note for Officers/N.C.O.'s Report on Night Raid Bde. Operation Order No.45 Battalion Orders Instructions from C.O. Message re Zero Time Casualties Honours & Awards Officers & N.C.O.'s Press Appreciations

Battalion Orders by
Lieut.-Colonel P.W. Machell, C.M.G., D.S.O. Commanding the 11th Border Regiment

28/6/16

Part 1, No. 167.

SPECIAL ORDER - The G.O.C. Division expects us to take Mouquet Farm to-morrow and keep it.

I told the General that he could reply on the Lonsdales to carry out his orders.

The thought that night, until we start, I ask everyone to be as quiet as possible in the wood and to show no lights, in order to avoid calling special attention to our location.

Before noon to-morrow we shall have accomplished our task. I feel no doubt about it, because, as in the case of the raid, we have made every possible preparation, and the whole battalion means to do its duty, as Lieut. Barnes and the Company raiders did theirs.