- Rupert Lancelot Nolan enlists
- The Leader reports the death of Basil Nicholls in France. Basil is the first soldier from the district to die in France. Death of an Orange Soldier
- George McIver of Carcoar gives an eye-witness account of being aboard the British ferry SS Sussex when it was torpedoed in the English Channel on 24 March. The Sussex Torpedoed
10 May 1916
