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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 2 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 2 February on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Tuesday)

• Russians storm Skempe (north-west of Poland). Continued desperate fighting on the Ravka near Bolimov.
• Austrians repulsed by Montenegrins in Herzegovina.
• German Loan of £3,000,000 to Bulgaria.
• Turkish advance-guards reach the Suez Canal (see 3 and 26 January).
• Aden protectorate invaded by Turkish forces.
• Entente communication to Greek, Serbian and Montenegrin Governments deprecating their intervention in Albania (see 26 June).

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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