9 April
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 9 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 9 April on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Friday)
- French completes the capture of Les Éparges.
- Germans bombard Reims.
- Indecisive fighting on the Meuse.
- Russians make progress near Suvalki.
- Continued indecisive fighting in the Carpathians.
- Greece: M. Venizelos temporarily retires from public life.
- General Sir John Nixon relieves General Sir Arthur Barrett as Commander-in-Chief Indian Expeditionary Force "D" Mesopotamia (see 13 November 1914, 18 March 1915, and 19 January 1916).
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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 (9 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.