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On this day, 28 March
1915 (Sunday)
1916 (Tuesday)
- Dernancourt: Situated in rest billets.
- Lt-Col. P. W. Machell: “Getting short of officers. The regular battalions are always changing, but these North-Country men want to know their officers thoroughly or they count for very little.[2]
1917 (Wednesday)
- Battalion parades in fighting order and marches east, leaving Nesle at 12 noon passing through Voyennes to Toulle, arriving 3.30pm. They halt here for three hours.
- March continues at 6.45pm to area north of Germaine.
- Trenches are dug on a 700 yard frontage, facing eastwards.
- Deaths: Thomas Gilbert Davies (27726 Pte.) / Ernest Harold Gough (27750 Pte.)
1918 (Thursday)
- Battalion moves from the sunken road at Ransart at 8.30am to occupy old trenches in the vicinity of Adinfer Wood.
- Two companies in rear and two on the right flank. Rear companies move to the front of the wood later in the day.
- Shelters are dug in the sides of old trenches.
- Battalion Headquarters is located at the rear.
- ↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/279
- ↑ Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France