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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 30 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 30 April on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Friday)

• Second Battle of Ypres: Attempted German advance from St. Julien repulsed.
• Zeppelin raid on East Anglia.
• German forces reach the railway stations of the Muravievo and Radziviliski (Province of Kovno, Baltic Provinces).
• Australian submarine AE2 sunk by Turkish warship in the Sea of Marmora.
• German warning in USA newspapers re: sailing in RMS Lusitania.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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