Map of Pozieres and Mouquet Farm district. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- Charles Henry Jude is killed in action in France
- The 6th Australian Brigade launches an attack on German positions at Mouquet Farm on the Somme. The operation is launched in fine weather at 4.45am; 45 men are killed, 257 wounded and 135 reported missing.
- British soldiers take a section of German trench north of Bazentin-le-Petit on the Somme
- Russian forces advance towards Halicz in Galicia
- British forces enter Morogoro in German East Africa
