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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 27 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 27 April on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Tuesday)

• Second Battle of Ypres: Allied attack north of Ypres checked by use of gas.
• German advance towards Shavli (Baltic Provinces).
• Dardanelles: Allies establish themselves across the Gallipoli Peninsula.
• Russians expel the Turks from Kutur (Persia).
• Baghdad railway bridge over Euphrates at Jerablus stated to be open for traffic.
• French armoured cruiser Leon Gambetta sunk by an Austrian submarine in the Adriatic.
• HMS Queen Elizabeth sinks a Turkish t.b. off Maidos.
• Submarine HMS E14 sinks a Turkish gunboat Nurel Bahr in the Sea of Marmora.
• Mr. Churchill announces that 29 prisoners from German submarines are separately confined and specially treated as a reprisal against the German submarine campaign.
• Ain ed Douleh appointed Persian Prime Minister (see 26 April and 17 August).
• Mohtashem ed Douleh appointed Persian Foreign Minister (see 26 April and 5 March 1916).

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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