7 May

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

1915 (Friday)

Libau (Baltic Provinces) taken by German forces (see 30 April).
Russians fall back to the River Vistock, and retreat in the Carpathians.
Massacres of Christians in Ottoman Empire.
British Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey sends a message to the Ottoman Government as to the placing of allied citizens in the danger zone.^{[note 1]}
Sir Edward Grey gives conditional guarantee to Serbian Minister of eventual cession of Bosnia and Herzegovina with "wide access to the Adriatic" (see 15 and 30 August).
RMS Lusitania is torpedoed by SM U-20 off the south-west coast of Ireland: 1,198 men, women and children drowned, including 124 US citizens (see 6 February).
Japan presents an ultimatum to China demanding territorial concession ^{[note 2]} (see 9 May).

↑ Members of the Ottoman Government would be held personally responsible for the safety of British and French civilians transported from Constantinople to Gallipoli.
↑ Japan demanded that China should grant in full her demands as to Shantung, Manchuria and Mongolia: should not alienate coasts and islands and the Han-Yeh-Ping Co.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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