Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 16 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 16 April on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Friday)
- Germans repulsed at Notre Dame de Lorette.
- French airships bomb Strassburg and other German towns.
- Zeppelin raid on East Anglia: aeroplane bombs Faversham and Sittingbourne. There are no recorded civilian casualties.
- Russians capture two heights south-west of Rosztoki Pass (Carpathians).
- Allied fleets bombard Enos.
- Albanian rebels bombard Durazzo.
- Turk regular forces reach and occupy Urumia, north-west Persia (see 2 January and 24 May).
- French cruiser bombards El Arish.
- British transport Manitou sunk by Turkish torpedo-boat destroyer. 51 lost.
- British apology to Chile for sinking of SMS Dresden in Chilean waters published.
- Austria declares that the Italian proposals are in the main unacceptable.
- Sinking of Katwyk by German submarine causes excitement in Holland.
- General Tighe succeeds General Wapshare in command of British Forces in East Africa (see 4 December 1914 and 19 February 1916).
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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 (16 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.