Southland an hour after being torpedoed on 2 September 1915. Most of the life boats have left the ship; some troops are still on deck. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- The troop transport ship Southland, carrying Australian and some British troops, is torpedoed in the Aegean Sea en route to Lemnos. Thirty-two Australian soldiers lose their lives, mostly by drowning.
- George Alfred Blunt enlists. George is commemorated on the Centenary of WWI in Orange Honour Roll; he would die of wounds in France on 19 July 1916.
