- Day 1045 of the war
- Miners are urged to present to Lieutenant Linklater at the Orange drill hall to enlist as tunnellers for the Miners’ Corps
- Walter Arthur Horace Higman is killed in the Battle of Messines
- Alfred George Carter, an engine fitter from Orange, is to be invalided home from the war, having sustained an arm and shoulder injury. Personal
- Mayor of Orange, Ald ET McNeilly appeals to the people of Orange to donate to the Soldiers’ Memorial Fund for the erection of a monument to the district’s war dead. Soldiers’ Memorial for Orange
- Nurse Gladys Boon arrives in Orange to spend a day’s final leave with her family prior to sailing for the front. Personal
- Allied forces repulse German counter-attacks east of Messines ridge
- Italian forces occupy Janina in Greece