Verdun War Memorial, 2007. Image courtesy Wolfgang Staudt.
- Day 875 of the war
- The Leader reports the death of Norman Osborn Herbert Gall, killed in action in France on 15 November. Norman Gall Killed
- The Battle of Verdun ends on the Western Front after ten months’ fighting. More than a million men are killed or wounded during the battle, the longest conflict of the First World War. The result of the battle is a marginal French victory.
- American president Woodrow Wilson dispatches peace notes to all belligerents requesting them to state their peace terms
- British troops in Mesopotamia move round Sannaiyat and reach the Tigris River above Kut-al-Amara. They sever the enemy’s lateral communications and take command of the river upstream of Khadairi Bend.
