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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 13 January.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 13 January on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Wednesday)

• Germans recover all Hill 132, and take the heights of Vregny.
• Russians advance on Lower Vistula and occupy Serpets north of Plotsk.
• Battle of Kara Urgan (Armenia), which has lasted several days, continues desperately.
• Turks occupy Tabriz (Persia).
• Germans attack Jasin (German East Africa).
• Resignation of Count Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is succeeded by Baron Stephen Burian.
• British War Council resolve that the Admiralty should prepare for a naval expedition in February against the Dardanelles (see 28 and 30 December, 1914).

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 (13 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.