Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 4 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 4 February on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Thursday)
- British casualties on Western Front to this date approximately 104,000.
- Continued heavy fighting on Bzura-Ravka front; Russians cross Bzura and take positions near Dachova.
- Russians falling back in Bukovina.
- German attack on Kakamas (north-west Cape Colony) repulsed.
- Germans declare waters round the United Kingdom a "war region" as from 18 February.[1]
Notes
References
- ↑ Quote from German declaration: "The waters around Great Britain and Ireland....are herewith proclaimed a war region. On and after February 18, every enemy merchant vessel found in this region will be destroyed without its always being possible to warn the crew and passengers....Neutral ships will also incur danger in the war-region, since....it cannot be guaranteed that attacks intended for enemy ships will not affect neutral ships also. Vessels sailing to the north of the Shetlands, in the eastern part of the North Sea, and in a zone at least 30 knots wide along the Netherlands coast, are not menaced by any danger."
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 (4 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.