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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 18 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 18 March on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Thursday)
- Violent indecisive fighting between Four-de-Paris and Bolante.
- Russians occupy Memel, East Prussia (see 21 March and 17 February).
- Continued Austrian attacks repulsed in the Carpathians and Bukovina.
- Dardanelles: Allied Naval attack on the Narrows; two forts destroyed (see 19 February).
- HMS Ocean, HMS Irresistible, and the French warship Bouvet sunk; French warship Gaulois is damaged.
- Romania calls up seven classes (1909-1915).
- General Sir John Nixon appointed Cormmander-in-Chief British Forces in Mesopotamia (see 9 April).
- British Government conclude agreement with American cotton interests that cotton should be contraband.
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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 (18 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.