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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 17 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 17 March on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Wednesday)

• Austrians, reinforced, try to cross the River Pruth in Bukovina.
• French Government lodge claim with British Government to Syria and Cilicia (see 26 April, 1916).
• General Sir Ian Hamilton takes over command of Dardanelles Expeditionary Force (see 12 March and 15 October).
• First Battle of Champagne ends (see 20 December, 1914).
• Mr. John Redmond gives speech at a great patriotic meeting held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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