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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 28 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 28 March on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Sunday)

• French repulse all counter-attacks at Les Éparges.
• Attempted renewal of offensive by Germans in northern Poland.
• Failure of Austrian attacks and progress by Russians in the Carpathians.
• The first passenger ship (British SS Falaba) sunk by a German submarine (see 13 March and 20 October 1914).
• Russian Black Sea fleet bombards the forts on the Bosporus.
• Smyrna forts shelled.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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