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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 9 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 9 August on The Great War wiki.

1914

• Template:WF Belgium: French cavalry in Belgium.
• Template:EF East Prussia: Russian First Army advancing.
• Template:NO Template:HMS, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15.
• Template:PO Germany, by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.

1915

• Template:HF Zeppelin air raid on Goole, East Riding and Dover begins. One airship is destroyed at Dunkirk.
• Template:WF British recapture trenches at Hooge. French air-raid on Saarbrücken.
• Template:EF Osovyets evacuated and destroyed by Russians. Night attack on Kovna fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack. Germans advance east of Warsaw.
• Template:SF Heavy Anzac losses; Turks getting stronger.
• Template:AE Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened. Turkish attacks at Olti and Passin (Armenia) repulsed. 255,000 Armenians from Van migrate into Transcaucasia.
• Template:NO Gadji (Cameroons) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations. Template:HMS, destroyer, mined and sunk. Turkish battleship Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa torpedoed by British submarine.
• Template:PO Italian Consuls throughout Turkey preparing to leave.

References/notes

Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)