Workington Star and Harrington Guardian

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1914

11 August	Notes of the Week (Editorial about the War)
11 September	Notes of the Week (Editorial against Man or Mouse Poster)
18 September	The Lonsdale Battalion
25 September	Workington Committee for Lonsdale Recruiting
2 October	Notes of the Week (Editorial about Raising the Lonsdales)
9 October	Men of Cumberland and Westmorland (Newspaper advert)
23 October	More Recruits for Lonsdale Battalion
30 October	Lonsdale Battalion - More Workington Recruits
6 November	Lonsdale Battalion Coming Tomorrow
6 November	Lonsdale Battalion - New Company to be Formed
14 November	Lonsdale Battalion Doing Well
26 November	Lonsdale Battalion - Further list of Recruits
25 December	Lonsdale Battalion - New Local Recruits

1915

24 November	Lonsdales in the Trenches - Chaplain wants Football for Them
26 November	The King's Message to the Lonsdales
24 December	A Bit of Rotten Luck
31 December	A Perpetual Stream of Bullets
31 December	Footballs and Cards to Hand

1916

?? January	Lonsdales Killing Germans & Sticking it Well
?? January	Overrun with Rats
?? January	Run Out
14 January	Lonsdales got Their Football
14 January	Rats in Millions
2 February	A Tribute to Private McQuire
2 February	Workington Lonsdale's Wounds
4 February	Lonsdales Bring in Their First Prisoners
4 February	Fit and Ready for Anything
4 February	A Smile for Everybody and Always Obliging
11 February	All Fairly Well and Cheerful
11 February	Had a Few More Casualties but Hoping for a Rest
11 February	Had Quite a Rough Time but More Determined Than Ever
13 February	An Unlucky Company
13 February	Now then, You Lads at Workington
10 March	Got Concertina All Right - Plenty of Mud but No Shells
10 March	In Canvas Huts Surrounded by Mud
24 March	Lonsdales Lose Some Fine Chaps
24 March	Lost a Few Men
24 March	Three Caught, Two Suffocated
24 March	Will Be Satisfied Now
21 April	Well on the Road to Recovery
28 April	Been Back a Bit, but Moved up Again
28 April	May Be Called Upon Any Minute
12 May	Will Make Them Give in
12 May	Brought Back Memories of Old 'Derby Days'
12 May	Busy Having Pieces of the Kaiser's Iron Taken From His Chest
12 May	Made Fritz Angry
12 May	Thinking of Uppies & Downies
12 May	Won a Football Competition
16 June	More Local Casualties
30 June	Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting
30 June	Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother
7 July	War Items - Colonel Machell Killed & Batch of Wounded
7 July	Wounded Three Times - Ran with Bombs
14 July	An Appreciation of Lt-Col. Colonel Machell
14 July	Casualties
14 July	Killed - Pte. Osbourne Morgan Lewis
14 July	Wounded - Pte. Robert McKegg
21 July	Deaths - Local Border Men
21 July	Killed - Official Notifications
21 July	It's Been an Awful Time
21 July	Workington's Black Week
4 August	Private Harry Blair Missing
18 August	Wounded Workington Men
1 December	Killed - Sgt. Arthur Hackett
1 December	Wounded - L/Cpl. R. Potts & Sgt. J.W. Oglethorpe
15 December	Killed - Private M. Timmins
15 December	Wounded - Private Harold Pettitt
15 December	Wounded - Signaller T. Lumsden
22 December	Missing - L/Cpl. E.J. Bowman

1917

6 July	Killed - Pte. James B. Simpson
8 July	Killed - Pte. James Diamond
8 July	Local Casualties - Cpl. J. Mewhorter
8 July	More Wounded

1918

10 May

Local Casualties - L/Cpl. Alf Sydney

Acknowledgements

• All newspaper articles researched and provided by Peter Sloan.