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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 19 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 19 February on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Friday)
- French make a little progress at Les Eparges (east of Verdun).
- Heavy fighting in the Vosges; Germans take the Reichsackerkopf and occupy Metzeral and Sondernach.
- Russian counter-offensive on East Prussian frontier.
- Sorties at Przemsyl repulsed.
- Austrian offensive on the River Dunajec checked after slight advance.
- Russian retreat near Nadworna.
- Stanislau (Galicia) captured by Austrian forces (see 30 October 1914, and 4 March 1915).
- Bombardment of forts at entrance to Dardanelles by five British and three French battleships and battle-cruisers (see 18 March).
- Norwegian SS Belridge torpedoed in Channel (but not sunk) and reaches port. First ship torpedoes by German submarine without warning.[note 1]
- Memoranda published by British Government in reply to USA Notes about the neutral flag[note 2] and SS Wilhelmina.[note 3]
Notes
- ↑ German Government subsequently asserted that this ship was attacked in error.
- ↑ It is urged that the British Merchant Shipping Act allows the use of the British flag by ships of other nations for the purpose of evading capture, and no nation has forbidden such use of its flag. It is added, however, that the British Government has no intention of advertising British merchant shipping to use foreign flags as a general practice or to resort to them except in order to escape capture or destruction. A belligerent vessel has the obligation of ascertaining the character of a ship before capturing it, and the British Government cannot assume responsibility for what may happen if this is disregarded.
- ↑ The memorandum states that when the Wilhelmina's cargo was seized, the British Government had before them the German decree of January 25, under an article of which imported grain and flour might be delivered only to certain organisations under Government control or to municipal authorities. It has since become know that on February 6 this article was repealed. The effect of this change must be decided in the Prize Court. The article in question, however, was not the only reason for the seizure of the cargo: the conduct of Germany was sufficient justification.
References
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 (19 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.