Royal Flying Corps biplane on reconnaisance, Somme, August 1916, John Warwick Brooke. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 4153).
- Heavy aerial fighting continues on the Somme front
- German soldiers gain a footing in French trenches south of Estrees in the southern Somme
- Russian troops advance to the heights south of Jablonica Pass in the Carpathian Mountains on the Eastern Front
- General Jacob Louis Van Deventer’s South African Mounted Brigade marches unopposed into Kilosa in German East Africa, where new headquarters are established. German soldiers retreat to Morogoro.
