17 February
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 17 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 17 February on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Wednesday)
- Small French advances near Roclincourt (north of Arras), near Perthes, and north-west of Verdun.
- Two Zeppelins wrecked off north-west Denmark: L-3 is stranded and destroyed off Fanö, and L-4 is destroyed near Blaavands Huk.
- Russians defeated on line Plotsk-Ratsionj (north-west Poland).
- Great battle near Nadworna and Kolomea.
- Czernowitz (Bukovina) is retaken by Austrian forces (see 28 October 1914, and 17 June 1916).
- Memel reoccupied by German forces (see 11 November 1914, and 18 March 1915).
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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 (17 February), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.