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| colspan="2" |<center>The following Officers proceed abroad with the Battalion on November 23rd, 1915</center>
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|! style="background:#444; color:white; width:4050%;" | <center>'''Officers '''</center>
|! style="background:#444; color:white; width:4050%;" | <center>'''Position '''</center>
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| <center>Lieut.- Colonel P.W. Machell, C.M.G</center>
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| <center>Miliary Chaplain</center>
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| style="background:#444; color:white;" |! <center>'''A Company'''</center>
| style="background:#444; color:white;" |! <center>'''B Company'''</center>
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| <center>Captain R. Smith</center>
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| style="background:#444; color:white;" |! <center>'''C Company'''</center>
| style="background:#444; color:white;" |! <center>'''D Company'''</center>
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| <center>Captain G. Rivington</center>
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| <center>2nd Lieut. G. Twynam</center>
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| style="background:#444; color:white; width:40%;" |! <center>'''Officers '''</center>
| style="background:#444; color:white; width:40%;" |! <center>'''Position '''</center>
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| <center>W.O. Scott</center>
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| <center>Regtl. Quartermaster</center>
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| style="background:#efefef;" colspan="2" | <center>and 995 Other Ranks </center>
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== November 1915 ==
'''Nov. 23rd''' The Battalion left Folkstone for Boulogne at 9-30 a.m. by the ''“[[Princess Victoria]]”''. Spent the night at the rest-camp, and on train the following evening to…
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{| class="wikitable" style="width:auto;"
| style="background:#efefef;" |Carrying party for Stokes guns in charge of one officer, T.M.B.
| style="background:#e5cc9e; width:15%;" |+ 15’
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| style="background:#efefef;" |D Company for Strong Point Int. line
| style="background:#e5cc9e;" |+ 20’
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| style="background:#efefef;" |B Company for Mouquet farm and Mouquet Switch A Company for Mouquet Farm and Mouquet Switch
| style="background:#e5cc9e;" |+ 25’ + 25’
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| style="background:#efefef;" |C Company for Mouquet farm S. Pt.
| style="background:#e5cc9e;" |+ 35’
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| style="background:#efefef;" |Battalion Headquarters
| style="background:#e5cc9e;" |+ 40’
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| style="background:#ffffff;" colspan="2" | ''I go forward now to point—(i.e., well inside German lines) and thence to point—about half a mile on line to M.F. (Mouquet Farm).''
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{| class="wikitable" style="width:30em; float:right; margin:10px 0px 10px 15px;"
| style="background:#444; color:white;"! colspan="2" | <center>'''Killed '''</center>
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| style="background:#efefef;" colspan="2" | <center>Lieut.-Colonel P.W. Machell, C.M.G., D.S.O.</center>
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| style="width:50%;" | <center>Captain R. Smith</center>
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| <center>2nd Lieut. Paton</center>
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| style="background:#444; color:white;"! colspan="2" | <center>'''Wounded '''</center>
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| <center>(2nd in C.) Major P.G.W. Diggle</center>
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| <center>2nd Lieut. F.M. Ransom</center>
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| style="background:#efefef;" colspan="2" | <center>The casualties by companies are given in [[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix G|Appendix G]] The following officers did not “go over” on July 1st, but were kept in rear: </center>
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| <center>Lieut. Welsh</center>
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