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On This day...30 June

1916 (Friday)

• Newspaper articles: Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting and Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother are published.
• Battalion situated at Crucifix Corner. No fresh written Battalion Orders are issued. Sometime during the day notes and instructions are issued verbally by Lt-Col. Machell. Each man is thoroughly acquainted with the task that lay before him.
• The Lonsdales move up at 10pm from dug-outs at Crucifix Corner to specifically dug assembly trenches in the thickest (and least damaged) area of Authuille Wood in preparation for zero hour on 1 July. A transverse trench used for communication purposes leads the men through the wood. They are hardly shelled during the night and suffer zero casualties.

1917

• Battalion patrol examines the wires. Day is exceptionally quiet.

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Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)

Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile The Lonsdale Battalion On This Day. The majority of the events shown on this day (Borderman/Flex stuff), including any supplementary notes, enlistments and statistical data etc., have been primarily sourced from the Lonsdale Battalion War Diary (November 1915 to June 1918), Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) and abridged material from Timeline and Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915), which are sourced from the original DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Events from that chronology are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther (2016). They are identified and referenced separately by their unique DLONS numbers. Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate. All casualty names, numbers, ranks, date of deaths and places of burial/commemoration have been sourced from Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database respectively.

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A Discussion

A discussion is taking place between the Commanding Officer and one of his men

Aiming Drill

"This is how you do it lads." An aiming drill staged for the photographer

Digging Entrenchments

Learning how to "dig-in" and the rigid training involved of digging entrenchments

Inspection

Inspection of the troops by Lord Lonsdale, the men standing to attention as he passes by

Bayonet Training

Close quarter bayonet training with sandbags

A Watchful Stroll

Officers out for a stroll through the grounds keeping a watchful eye on the training

Officers

Officers of the Lonsdale Battalion

New Recruits

A parade of new recruits, many without uniform until these could be supplied at a later date

Physical Drill

There is no getting away from the morning stretches!

The PT Instructor

The Commanding Officer, Percy Machell and other officers, watch the physical drill instructor

Off to France

A route march through the streets of Carlisle

Off to France

A route march through the streets of Carlisle, the fanfare of the lads marching off to war

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