French troops passing time in a trench during the Battle of Champagne. Image courtesy Le Miroir, 27 décembre 1914.
- The First Battle of Champagne ends. Beginning on 20 December 1914, the battle was the first major Allied attack against the Germans since the initiation of trench warfare on the Western Front.
- The Leader reports that the recent Patriotic Fund Market Day fete in the Oddfellows’ Hall raised £538, bringing the patriotic war fund to almost £4,000
