King George V, holding telescope, watches the battle of Pozieres from captured ground, 10 August 1916. The Prince of Wales is behind the King, Ernest Brooks. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- Day 745 of the war
- Eric Brodie McKay dies of wounds received in the Battle of Pozieres
- Turkish forces capture Hamadan in Western Persia
- The War Office releases The Battle of the Somme, featuring real footage from the war. The film breaks all box office records with nearly half the population of the UK – 20 million people – flocking to the cinema in the following two months
Image courtesy Yorkshire Evening Post, August 1916.
