9 May
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 9 May.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 9 May on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Sunday)
- Second Battle of Ypres: British retake Wieltje. They fail in an attack on Aubers Ridge (Neuve Chapelle).
- Allied Spring Offensive begins.
- Second Battle of Artois begins (see 18 June).
- The leading division of the British New Armies leaves England for France (see 21 August 1914 and 24 February 1915).
- Germans defeated at Krakinow (Baltic Provinces).
- President Wilson, in a speech, defines United States policy in regard to the RMS Lusitania outrage (see 7 May).
- Chinese Government yield to Japanese demands (see 7 and 25 May).
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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 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.