- Lord Kitchener visits Anzac troops at Gallipoli
- Winston Churchill resigns from the British Cabinet and goes to serve on the Western Front as an infantry officer with the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Winston Churchill’s World War Disaster
- Royal Navy Air Service flight commander Joseph Ruscombe Wadham Smyth-Pigott makes a daring night bombing attack on a bridge of the Berlin-Constantinople railway from a height of almost 100 metres. Although the bridge survives, he receives the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry.