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<div style="font-size:150%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;'>The home of the<br>11th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment in the First World War</div> |
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<div style="font-size:115%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">''Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense'' — Evil be to Him who Evil Thinks</div> |
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| style="padding:5px 30px 5px 30px; vertical-align:top; font-style:italic;"|All will be more comfortable when our division takes over. The Commanding Officer's are well enough off always, apparently, having pretty good dug-outs and a chance of drying up, but I feel very bad about the men, and one can’t do enough for them.<br><span style="font-style:normal;"> —[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt. Col. P.W. Machell]], Commanding Officer</span> |
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| style="padding:5px 30px 5px 30px; vertical-align:top; font-style:italic;"|For the first six months there was never a night that the C.O. did not go round the trenches. Not a casual walk round, but four or fives hours out…We had the name of being the best Infantry Battalion in France, among any of those who had to do with us.<br><span style="font-style:normal;"> —Major P.G.W. Diggle, 2nd in Command</span> |
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| content = <p align="justify">[[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. <small>(This information refreshes daily.)</small>{{clear}} |
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<span style="font-size:130%; text-align:center;">On this day in history ([[{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}]])</span>{{:{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} |
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|style="border:2px solid #66042c; border-top:6px solid #66042c; background-color: #f7f7f7; padding:10px 15px; width:33%; vertical-align:top;" | The Lonsdale Battalion was formed by [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale]], and an Executive Committee with the approval of the War Office on [[17 September]], 1914. The Executive Committee raised four companies, all financed by the Earl of Lonsdale himself from his personal funds. Discover almost four years of the Battalion's history through formation, training and front line action.<hr><center>([[Battalion history|Discover the Lonsdales history]])</center> |
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===Lonsdale Battalion=== |
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*[[The Lonsdale Battalion - an introduction|The Lonsdales]] |
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*[[Lonsdale Battalion history|Battalion history]] |
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*[[Lonsdale Battalion on this day...|On this day...]] |
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*[[Document library|Document library]] |
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*[[Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour|Roll of honour]] |
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*[[Lonsdale Battalion war diary|War diary]] |
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*[[Newspaper articles|Newspaper articles]] |
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*[[Lonsdale Battalion quotes|Quotes]] |
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*[[Lonsdale Battalion image gallery|Image galleries]] |
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===Border Regiment=== |
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*[[The Border Regiment|Introduction]] |
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*[[The Border Regiment in the Great War|Border history]] |
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|style="border:2px solid #45232e; border-top:6px solid #45232e; background-color: #f7f7f7; padding:10px 15px; width:33%; vertical-align:top;" | Some regimental war diaries were sparse in detail, whilst others were incredibly descriptive. Today, they are pivotal to learning about the daily lives of the men and the bitter fighting they endured. The Lonsdale's war diary offers a complexity of daily reports on operations, intelligence summaries, casualties, maps and various other appendices covering their time in France and Flanders.<hr><center>([[Lonsdale Battalion war diary|Look through the diary]])</center> |
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*[[Battalions of the Border Regiment|Border battalions]] |
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*[[Border Regiment War Diaries|War diaries]] |
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*[[Border Regiment Victoria Cross Citations|VC citations]] |
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|style="border:2px solid #2f2676; border-top:6px solid #2f2676; background-color:#f7f7f7; padding:10px 15px; width:33%; vertical-align:top;" | There were a wide range of documents recorded and compiled between the Lonsdale's formation and eventual disbandment in 1918. The documents offer detailed information on the actions and day-to-day running of the Battalion at a time of war. These include, but are not limited to: orders, reports, notes, instructions, messages, honours, awards and press appreciations.<hr><center>([[Document library|Browse the library]])</center> |
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On this day is a listing of historical events associated with the actions of the Lonsdale Battalion, from formation in 1914 through to its disbandment in 1918. The Lonsdales were a 'Pals' battalion, volunteers answering Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's call to arms - to fight for King and Country. The actions of this Pals battalion throughout its four year's existence are included here as daily events 'on this day'. In this case, an event is the term used broadly to describe a particular action or set of actions. An event could be a reference to bayonet training, digging entrenchments, receiving orders by the commanding officer, detailed fighting on the front line, or it could be a simple report on casualty figures, among many others. [[About 'on this day'|Learn more about this project]]. |
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The 11th Battalion Roll of Honour has been transcribed as it was printed in HMSO’s Soldiers Died in the Great War, Volume 39, The Border Regiment. This is a complete list of men killed whilst serving in the Lonsdale Battalion during the war. Many men listed here served in many other regiments, the most common ones being the Herefordshire, Essex and Liverpool Regiments. |
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Read a selection of quotes from various source materials. The words offer the reader a glimpse into the lives of the men and officers and the very things they bore witness to first-hand. Quotes from the Battalion war diaries give a unique insight to the mundane duties of trench warfare, the horrors of battle and the praising of their fellow brothers in the course of their duties. |
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Peruse over a collection of images of the Lonsdales during their initial training period at Blackhall Camp, Carlisle, before being shipped over to France. See the men in their civvies lining up for roll call, engaged in bayonet training and aiming drills, digging entrenchments and physical exercise. Plus, see photos of officers, individuals, groups, obituaries, cap badges and other insignia. |
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|style="border:1px solid #60240c; border-top:6px solid #60240c; background-color: #fdf3ee; padding: 5px 15px 10px 15px; vertical-align:top;" colspan="5" |<span style="text-align:center; font-size:180%;">Want to find out more?</span><br><span style="text-align:center; font-size:130%;">Discover the history of the Lonsdales and their actions in the First World War.<br>Press the button below to begin your journey.</span> |
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Latest revision as of 01:01, 4 March 2019
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 (4 July)
1916 (Tuesday)
- Battalion situated at Crucifix Corner finds fatigues for detonating and carrying up bombs to front line.
- During the night of 4-5 July the Battalion is attached to 2nd King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and marches to Contay Wood.
1917 (Wednesday)
- Battalion situated in the line at Nieuport-Lombardzyde Sector.
- Relief is by 17th Highland Light Infantry at 9pm; complete by 10:30pm.
- Deaths: James Gibson (14445 L/Cpl.) / John Norman Glaister (16365 Pte.) / Richard Jefferson (19460 Sgt.)
1918 (Thursday)
- Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment (33rd American Division) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.[a]
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- ↑ 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.
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/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.
Current Projects
Lonsdale Battalion
- The Lonsdales
- Battalion history
- On this day...
- Document library
- Roll of honour
- War diary
- Newspaper articles
- Quotes
- Image galleries
Border Regiment
Helping Our Projects