Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 28 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 28 April on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Wednesday)
- Second Battle of Ypres: German offensive definitely stopped.
- Germans bomb Dunkirk, Pervyse and Nancy; French bomb Friedrichshafen.
- Germans storm French position at Les Mesnils.
- Very powerful Austro-German offensive under von Mackensen begins between the Dunajec and Biala Rivers (west Galicia). Russians driven back.
- Dardanelles: Allied forces, aided by HMS Queen Elizabeth, advance on Krithia; First Battle of Krithia (see 6 May).
- Skirmishes east of the Suez Canal.
- Germans defeated at Gibeon (German south-west Africa).
- South African Government publishes a Blue Book on the rebellion.
- British Government conclude a treaty with the Idrisi for co-operation against the Turks (see 31 January).
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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 (28 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.