- Driver Guy Arkins of Millthorpe complains about the bitterness of English weather, where most of the year is as cold as Millthorpe’s coldest weather. Personal
- Miss J Brooke of Summer Street receives a letter from a soldier friend who has been taken a prisoner of war in Germany. Prisoner of War
We’ve had very hard times since being captured – starvation, unclean and unsanitary arrangements, and no blankets at all… We have a terrible winter – the worst I have ever experienced. Snow, rain, mud, and very little shelter… Time drags miserably here…
- No 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, arrives in France, the first Australian flying unit to arrive on the Western Front
