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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 11 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 11 April on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Sunday)

• Germans repulsed at Les Éparges.
• Severe fighting near Albert.
• Germans bombard Osovyets.
• Russians capture Wysocko Nizhne, near the Uzsok Pass.
• Turks attack British at Kurna (Mesopotamia) and Ahwaz (Persian Gulf).
• Harrison liner Wayfarer torpedoed.
• SS Kronprinz Wilhelm arrives at Newport News.
• Count Bernstorff publishes the German Note to USA.
• German reprisals announced re British treatment of captured submarine crews: 39 British officer prisoners under arrest.
• Bulgaria agrees to mixed Serbian and Bulgarian commission on frontier incidents in Macedonia.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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