8 March

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

1915 (Monday)

Local attack by Germans, after heavy bombardment, fails at Dixmude.
Severe fighting on whole front north of the River Vistula .
Fighting goes in favour of Russians round Osovyets.
Despite heavy losses, Austrians continue to attack at Baligrod.
Russians checked at Kosziowa (southern Carpathians), but retain positions by a counter-attack.
Dardanelles: Operations hindered by bad weather.
Heraclea (Eregli) (Asia Minor) and neighbouring coast bombarded by Russian Black Sea fleet.
Ostend bombed.
Greece: M. Zaimis having refused to form a ministry, King Constantine summons M. Gounaris who forms a cabinet.
In a council at Vienna, the Emperor Francis Joseph accepts the principle of a rectification of frontiers in favour of Italy.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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