14 March

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

1915 (Sunday)

Battle of St. Eloi begins; Germans attack south of Ypres.^{[note 1]}
Belgians make progress in the bend of the Yser and south of Dixmude.
Violent German attacks fail between Four-de-Paris and Bolante.
Continued Russian success in the district of Przasnysz.
German cruiser SMS Dresden sunk by British warships off Juan Fernandez^{[note 2]} (see 8 December 1914, and 26 April 1915).
Mushir ed Dowleh succeeds Mustaufi ul Mamalek as Persian Prime Minister (see 19 August 1914, and 26 April 1915).

↑ The German offensive at St. Eloi resulted in the capture of the village and part of the British front line system. Counter attacks resulted in the recovery of the village and most of the lost ground.
↑ The German cruiser SMS Dresden, which escaped from the battle of the Falklands Isles, was sunk by British warships off the island of Juan Fernandez in Chilean territorial waters.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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