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Featured Transcription
The Lonsdale Battalion...On This Day
Lonsdale Battalion on this day... is a daily listing of movements, actions, events and political involvements of the Lonsdale Battalion that took place this day between 1914–1918. (This information refreshes daily.)
On this day in history (6 July)
1916 (Thursday)
- Battalion reorganising into two companies in Contay Wood. Battalion strength is 11 officers and 480 other ranks.
- Lieutenant Caleb Walden Margerison dies of wounds.[a]
- D Company men Thomas Campbell (13920 Pte.)[b] and James Campbell (19621 L/Cpl.)[c], die from wounds.
1917 (Friday)
- Newspaper article Killed - Pte. James B. Simpson is published in the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian.
- Nieuport: 2nd Lieut. Bishop is killed in a working party about midnight 5th/6th by indirect machine gun fire.
- Back areas are under heavy shelling during morning and afternoon with 8" Naval Shells.
- Retaliation from Allied field guns and heavies.
- Enemy aeroplanes are active overhead.
- Benjamin Edward Ryan (33585) and Frederick William Smith (28699) are killed in action.
1918 (Saturday)
- Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment (33rd American Division) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.[d]
Notes
- ↑ Lieutenant Margerison was the battalion War Diarist, Intelligence and Signalling Officer. One month prior to his death he took part in the night raid on the Leipzig Salient at the Bull's Eye German trenches on 5 June 1916.
- ↑ Thomas Campbell (13920 Pte.) died from his wounds sustained from the Big Push on 1 July.
- ↑ James Campbell (19621 L/Cpl.) died back home in blighty, aged 21. He is buried at Bramption (St. Martin) Old Churchyard.
- ↑ The Lonsdales were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On 29 July, 1918, the war diary states: "orders received for WO's, NCO's and men of the cadres to proceed to join the 1/5th Border Regiment (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure."The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on 31 July.
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Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the
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/Main page), 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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- The Lonsdales
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- On this day...
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- Newspaper articles
- Quotes
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