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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 25 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 25 March on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Thursday)

• Russian counter-offensive makes progress in the Carpathians; 5,700 prisoners taken.
• Submarine SM U-29 sunk.
• Dutch SS Medea captured by German submarine and sunk. First neutral ship sunk after visit and search (see 13 March 1915).
• Indian Expeditionary Force "F" (in Egypt) absorbed into Indian Expeditionary Force "E" (see 2 October 1914; 2 and 16 November 1914).
• General Liman von Sanders appointed to command Turco-German Forces, Dardanelles.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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