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Events from the year 1915 in the United Kingdom . This year was dominated by World War I , which broke out in the August of the previous year.
Incumbents [ edit ]
1 January - World War I : Sinking of the battleship HMS Formidable , off Lyme Regis , Dorset , by an Imperial German Navy U-boat . 35 officers and 512 men are lost out of a total complement of 780.[ 1]
19 January - World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn for the first time, killing more than twenty.[ 2]
24 January - World War I: Battle of Dogger Bank : British Grand Fleet defeats the German High Seas Fleet , sinking the armoured cruiser SMS Blücher .[ 2]
January - HMS Queen Elizabeth enters service as the Royal Navy 's first oil-fired battleship .
1 February - Photographs required in British passports for the first time.[ 2]
18 February - World War I: Germany regards waters around the British Isles to be a war zone from this date, as part of its U-boat campaign .
11 March - World War I: Sinking of armed merchantman HMS Bayano (1913) off Galloway by German U-boat SM U-27 Isle of Man , with only 26 saved.[ 3]
14 March - World War I:
18 March - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.
24 April - The FA Cup is won by Sheffield United F.C. , who defeat Chelsea 3-0 in the final at Old Trafford , Manchester . The competition will now be abandoned until the war is over.[ 4]
25 April - World War I: Gallipoli Campaign : Landing at Cape Helles by British and French forces, heavily opposed by Ottoman troops. The Lancashire Fusiliers win 'six VCs before breakfast '.
7 May - World War I: Sinking of the RMS Lusitania : British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-20 New York to Liverpool .[ 2]
17 May - The last purely Liberal government ends when Prime Minister Herbert Asquith decides to form an all-party coalition, precipitated by reports in the Northcliffe press of deficiencies in the supply of shells for the army.[ 5]
22 May - Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green in Scotland : collision and fire kill 226, mostly troops, the largest number of fatalities in a rail accident in the U.K. [ 6]
25 May - The Prime Minister forms the Second Asquith ministry , a national wartime coalition government of twelve Liberals, eight Unionists and one Labour member (Arthur Henderson ). David Lloyd George is appointed first Minister of Munitions .
27 May - HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks while loading mines off Sheerness with the loss of 352 lives.
Undated [ edit ] Publications [ edit ]
6 January - Alan Watts , Zen Buddhist philosopher (died 1973)
23 January - Arthur Lewis , economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
30 January - John Profumo , cabinet minister (died 2006)
1 February - Stanley Matthews , footballer (died 2000)
4 February - Norman Wisdom , comedian, singer and actor (died 2010)
11 February - Patrick Leigh Fermor , author and soldier (died 2011)
19 February - John Freeman , politician (died 2014)
9 March - Johnnie Johnson , fighter pilot (died 2001)
31 March - Albert Hourani , historian (died 1993)
15 May - Hilda Bernstein , English-born author, artist and activist (died 2006)
20 May - Peter Copley , actor (died 2008)
22 June - Duncan Clark , hammer thrower (died 2003)
24 June - Fred Hoyle , astronomer (died 2001)
22 August - Hugh Paddick , actor (died 2000)
28 August - Max Robertson , sports commentator (died 2009)
30 August - Lillian May Davies, later Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland , Welsh fashion model and Swedish princess (died 2013)
22 September - Arthur Lowe , actor (died 1982)
13 October - Terry Frost , artist (died 2003)
4 November - Marguerite Patten , home economist (died 2015)
16 November - Maurice Oldfield , intelligence chief (died 1981)
3 January - James Elroy Flecker , poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1884; died of tuberculosis)
13 January - Mary Slessor , Christian missionary (born 1848)
14 January - Richard Meux Benson , founder of an Anglican religious order (born 1824)
4 February - Mary Elizabeth Braddon , popular novelist (born 1837)
4 March - William Willett , promoter of daylight saving time (born 1856)
15 March - George Llewelyn Davies , one of the 'Lost Boys' who inspired Peter Pan
31 March - Wyndham Halswelle , runner (born 1882; killed in action)
23 April - Rupert Brooke , poet (born 1887; died on active service)
27 April - William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse , airman (born 1887; killed in action; awarded posthumous Victoria Cross )
9 May - Alan Hargreaves, a son of Alice Liddell (born 1881; killed in action)
26 May - Julian Grenfell , war poet (born 1888; killed in action)
26 July - James Murray , Scottish-born lexicographer (born 1837)
30 July - Gerald William Grenfell, war poet (born c.1890; killed in action)
10 August - Henry Moseley , physicist (born 1887; killed in action)
25 September - Rex Hargreaves, a son of Alice Liddell (born 1883; killed in action)
26 September - Keir Hardie , Scottish socialist, first chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party and pacifist (born 1856)
12 October - Edith Cavell , nurse (born 1865; executed for treason)
13 October - Charles Sorley , Scottish-born poet (born 1895; killed in action)
23 October - W. G. Grace , cricketer (born 1848)
23 December - Roland Leighton , war poet (born 1895; died of wounds)
References [ edit ]
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