3 May

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 3 May.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 3 May on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Monday)

Second Battle of Ypres: Withdrawal to new British line completed.
Germans again driven back.
Germans continue to advance towards Mitau (Baltic Provinces); 8,200 prisoners reported.
Austro-Germans make progress in Galicia and the Carpathians.
Dardanelles: Turks unsuccessfully attack the French lines at Gallipoli.
Submarine HMS E14 sinks a Turkish gunboat in the Sea of Marmora.
Italy denounces the Triple Alliance.^{[note 1]}
Advertisement in American papers states that ships flying the British flag are liable to destruction in the war zone.

↑ Italian Note stated that the Triple Alliance had lost its value as a result of Austria's action in July 1914, which was opposed to the spirit and letter of the treaty.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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