7 January

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 7 January.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 7 January on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Thursday)

French occupy Burnhaupt-le-Haut (Alsace).
Heavy German attacks on the lower Ravka river repulsed.
British Note with "preliminary observations" in reply to American Note of 29 December 1914 on interference with neutral trade.^{[note 1]}

Russians storm Chartorysk.
Sir Ian Hamilton's despatch on Suvla Bay published.
Embarkation of French and English at Seddul-Bahr (Dardanelles) begins, after repulse of a Turkish attack.
General Aylmer defeats Turks at Sheikh-Saad.
Count Bernstorff presents a memorandum on submarine policy to USA Government.
Great Britain arranges to ration Holland.

↑ The Note admits that a belligerent Power should interfere with neutral trade only when its national safety demands it, but holds that this does not exclude the right to interfere with contraband destined for the enemy. It is further admitted that foodstuffs should not be detained without a presumption that they are intended for the armed forces of the enemy, but it is added that Britain can give no unconditional undertaking to observe this principle in view of the methods of warfare followed by the Central Powers. The Note insists on the necessity, under modern conditions, of bringing ships into port for examination. It is pointed out that Britain's policy has been forced upon her by the growing danger that neutral countries will become bases of military supplies for the enemy.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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