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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 14 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 14 April on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Wednesday)

• Germans accuse the French of using poison gas near Verdun (see 22 April).
• Zeppelin raid on Tyneside. Civilian casualties include one woman and one child. See Air Raids on Great Britain in 1915.
• Germans repulsed before Osovyets.
• Indecisive fighting at the Uzsok Pass.
• Russians make progress east of Czernowitz.
• British offensive south of Shaiba (Mesopotamia) routs Turks. Battle of Shaiba ends (see 12 April).
• Mr. Fisher states in Australian Parliament that the Government will send every available man to the war.
• Mr. Harcourt, British Secretary for the Colonies, states that the Dominions will be consulted as to peace terms (see 14 July).
• General von Bissing suppresses the Belgian Red Cross.
• Greek Government reject Entente offer of Smyrna (see 12 April).
• Japanese Government inform British Government of German overtures for separate peace.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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