HMT Southern and HMT Pera follow HMT Orvieto out of King George’s Sound, Albany 1 November 1914. Photographer Charles Edwin Woodrow (CEW) Bean. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- The first Australian and New Zealand contingent sails from Albany, Western Australia, bound for Alexandria in Egypt. The convoy of 28 Australian and 10 New Zealand ships is escorted by the cruisers HMAS Sydney, HMAS Melbourne, HMS Minotaur and the Japanese cruiser Ibuki. Only one in three of those men who sailed in the first convoy would return physically unscathed at the conclusion of the war.
- The Battle of Coronel occurs off the coast of central Chile in South America. The German Navy, led by Vice Admiral Maximilian Reichsgraf von Spee, sinks the British armoured cruisers HMS Monmouth and HMS Good Hope, flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. 1,570 sailors of the Royal Navy are killed.
- German forces capture Messines, south of Ypres
- Martial law is proclaimed in Egypt
