Australian soldiers on their way to the front line trenches in Northern France, Bois Grenier, 5 June 1916. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- British Secretary of State for War, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, drowns when HMS Hampshire strikes a mine off the Orkney Islands and sinks. Of the 655 crewmen and seven passengers aboard just 12 crew survive. The vessel had been transporting Lord Kitchener and his staff from Scapa Flow on a diplomatic mission to Russia. The strange death of Lord Kitchener
- Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, launches an Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in the Hejaz region of Arabia
