1 March

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 1 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 1 March on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Monday)

French establish a new line two kilometres in front of old positions between Perthes and Beauséjour.
Niemen River front: Collapse of German offensive; signs of a general retreat.^{[note 1]}
Heavy fighting near Grodno and Osovyets.
Austrian attacks repulsed in the Carpathians.^{[note 2]}
Premier announces presumed "enemy destination" ships will be detained if necessary.
£187,000,000 asked for.

↑ German offensive against Russia began on 6 February, 1915 in north west Poland. It was stopped on the Plotsk-Raciaz after a severe battle between 16 and 18 February. The Germans began an offensive from East Prussia on 22 February, which was stopped on the line Kovna-Niemen-Przasnysz-Grodno-Osovyets. The Germans took Przasnysz on 26 February but the town after changing hands several times was finally secured by the Russians the following day. Hindenburg then attempted an offensive in the Kherjele-Przasynsz district, but was beaten back and retired to prepared portions on 14 March.
↑ An Austrian offensive in the Carpathians in the region of the San River was checked between 1 and 4 March, 1915. A further offensive on a 90-mile front, between Gorlice and the Uzsok Pass, continued until 21 March, the aim being probably to relieve pressure on Przemysl, which the offensive failed to do.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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