1 May

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

1915 (Saturday)

Second Battle of Ypres: Repulse of German attack on Hill 60; British ordered to withdraw to new line.
Germans occupy Shavli and approach Libau (Baltic Provinces).
Austro-German offensive towards the Uzsok Pass.
Battle of Gorlice-Tarnow begins (see 5 May).
Dardanelles: Turks attack the Allied line at Gallipoli.
Battle of Dilman (North Persia).
Two German torpedo boats sunk by British destroyer in North Sea.
Union forces occupy Kubas (German south-west Africa).
SS Gulflight torpedoed without warning: damaged, but reaches port. First US ship attacked by German submarine (see 19 February and 13 March).
Navigation resumed again between England and Holland.
Chinese Note to Japan requiring the restoration of Kiao-chau, and making other demands.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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