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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 23 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 23 February on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Tuesday)

• Russians advance across the Bobr River, south-east of Augustovo.
• Germans report capture of 300 guns in recent offensive.
• Entrance to the North Channel, except south of Rathlin Island, closed by British Government.
• Lemnos (Ægean) occupied by British marines (see 7 March).
• Occupation of Nonidas and Goanikas (German south-west Africa).

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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