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

1915 (Saturday)

• German attacks fail, and French gain ground, in counter-attacks in Champagne.
• Belgians gain ground on the Yser.
• Germans bombard Ypres.
• German offensive checked near the Augustovo Woods and Przasnysz.
• Austrian attacks fail in the Carpathians and East Galicia.
• Battle of Neuve Chapelle ends (see 10 March).
• Agreement signed by French and Belgian Governments suspending Franco-Belgian Convention of 30 July, 1891, regarding military service laws.
• Swedish SS Hanna torpedoed without warning. First neutral ship actually sunk by German submarine (see 25 and 28 March, and 19 February).

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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