8 April

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 8 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 8 April on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Thursday)

French attacks in the Woevre district repulsed.
Indecisive fighting in the Carpathians.
Deportation and massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire begins.^{[note 1]}
German armed merchant cruiser SS Prinz Eitel Friedrich interned at Newport News, United States (see 28 January).
Attempted assassination of Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt.
Italian Note to Austria, demanding territorial concessions in return for neutrality.^{[note 2]}

↑ Deportation began at Zeitoun in Cilicia, and continued with massacres through 1915 from one Armenian centre to another all over the Ottoman Empire.
↑ Italy demanded cession of Trentino, Dalmatian Islands, Gorizia and Gradisca; rectification of eastern frontier; renunciation of Austrian interests in Albania; recognition of Italian sovereignty over Valona; Trieste to be an independent state; amnesty to all military and political prisoners in the ceded districts. Italy to pay Austria 200,000,000 lire and to remain neutral.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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