Mena Camp, Egypt, December 1914. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- The first AIF convoy arrives in Alexandria, Egypt. Australian and New Zealand troops commence four and a half months’ training at Mena Camp, situated ten miles from Cairo in the shadow of the pyramids.
- British and Ottoman forces clash in the Battle of Qurna in Southern Iraq. Fighting lasts for a week; by 9 December Britain secures a front line in Southern Mesopotamia, securing Basra and the oil refineries at Abadan in Persia.
- The Battle of the Kolubara begins in Serbia. Fighting lasts four days.
- The British Government agrees to a Japanese request that Australia should not occupy German islands north of the Equator
