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 – Will Make Them Give in
• 2 February – Workington Lonsdales Wounded
• 4 February – Lonsdales Bring in Their First Prisoners
• 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
• 11 February – A Tribute to Pte. McQuire
• 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 – 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 & Pte. Robert McKegg
• 8 July – Local Casualties - Cpl. J. Mewhorter
• 8 July – Wounded - Pte. Bailliff, Cpl. Bacon, Sig. Kennaugh, Pte. Rafferty, Pte. Scott

1918

• 10 May – Local Casualties - L/Cpl. Alf Sydney

Acknowledgements

• All newspaper articles researched and provided by Peter Sloan.