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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 29 January.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 29 January on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Friday)

• Walney Island battery (Barrow-in-Furness) shelled by German submarine. First operation of German submarines in the Irish Sea.
• British repulse German attack at Cuinchy (south-west of La Bassée).
• Failure of German attempts to cross the Aisne near Soissons.
• Continued heavy fighting between Dukla and Wyszkov Passes; Russians losing ground.
• Russians advance towards Tilsit.
• German torpedo-boat sunk by Russian submarine off Cape Moen, Denmark.
• Greek Government decline to intervene on behalf of Serbia (see 24, 25 January and 15 February).

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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