- Edward Alexander Dickson enlists. Edward is commemorated on the Centenary of WWI in Orange Honour Roll; he would be killed in action in Belgium on 20 September 1917.
- Nurses Kath and Wynne King are officially welcomed home at the Orange Town Hall. Our Brave Nurses
- Mayor of Orange ET McNeilly expresses his disappointment at the number of “shirkers” at a meeting of the Orange Recruiting Association
- The Leader publishes a letter describing “the glorious and historical evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula”. How We Left Gallipoli
- 200 German troops are repulsed at Kachumbe on the Ugandan border. 57 of the enemy are killed during the struggle; the British seize a machine gun, 45 rifles and a quantity of ammunition.
- Russian forces capture Mush and Aklat in Armenia
- German forces in the Cameroons surrender the fort at Mora to the British following 17 months of fighting. Britain has suffered 4,600 casualties, including 1,668 dead, mostly from disease. French dead number 2,567. German East Africa is the last remaining German colony in Africa, with 10,000 troops under the command of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.
General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, 1913. Image courtesy German Federal Archives.
