Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, 1917. Image courtesy The Life of Sir Stanley Maude, CE Callwell, 1920.
- Day 700 of the war
- Bertie F Tanner [aka Joseph Turner] enlists. Bertie is commemorated on the Centenary of WWI in Orange Honour Roll; he would die of disease in England on 16 February 1917.
- Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude replaces Major-General Sir George Frederick Gorringe as commander of the Anglo-Indian relief force (Tigris Corps) in Mesopotamia
- German submarine UB-39 shells the village of New Seaham on the north-east coast of England. One woman is severely injured and dies the following day. Submarine Bombardment of Seaham
