22 February

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 22 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 22 February on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Monday)

Zeppelin bombs Calais.
Heavy bombardment of Reims; cathedral vault broken.
French capture trenches and two woods on the line Souain-Beauséjour.
The Winter Battle in Masuria ends (see 4 February). Germans report that "the pursuit of the Russians is now finished", and claim over 100,000 prisoners in East Prussian offensive.
Battle of Przasnysz begins (see 27 February). Heavy fighting at many points in northern Poland, especially near Przasnysz, where strong German attacks are repulsed.
Big battle begins south of the line Dolina-Stanislau.
Occupation of Garub (German south-west Africa) by Union forces.
South African Northern Force begins advance from Swakopmund on Windhuk (see 14 January).
Net barrage across North Channel (between Ireland and Scotland) established.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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