Map of the South-West Africa Campaign in 1915.
Image in public domain.
- Day 330 of the war
- South African forces capture Otavifontein in modern-day Namibia. This is the last skirmish of significance in the German South-West African campaign of WWI.
- The Leader publishes a letter from Gunner Harold Mark Collins aboard HMAS Sydney in the West Indies. Gunner Collins gives an in-depth account of his war experience to date, including the sinking of the Emden in November 1914. On board the Sydney
- The Leader publishes excerpts of a letter from Lisle Mervyn Lane to his parents with a vivid account of the Gallipoli landing and the subsequent 48 hours, during which he has no sleep, precious little food and sustains a gunshot wound to the leg. Lisle survives Gallipoli, but is killed in action in France in March 1917. Our Soldier Boys at the Front
