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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 10 January.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 10 January on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Sunday)

• French make further progress at Hill 132 and north of Perthes.
• 16 German aeroplanes attempt to cross the Channel, but, foiled by the weather, bomb Dunkirk.
• Turks reported advancing on Suez Canal.

1916 (Monday)

• Austrians take Mt. Lovchen.
• Sir Archibald Murray succeeds Sir Charles Monro in command of Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.
• Russian offensive in Armenia.
• Sir A. Murray's command in Egypt limited to country east of line five miles west of Suez Canal.

Acknowledgements

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 (10 January), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.