Field Marshal Viscount Edmund Allenby, 1917. Image in the public domain.
- Day 1065 of the war
- General Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby succeeds General Sir Archibald Murray as commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force
- British forces on the Western Front advance south of the Souchez River as German troops attack north-west of Verdun and capture French trenches on Hill 304
