Three members of the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment in front of the El Arish Mosque, December 1916. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- Day 1035 of the war
- Edgar Irvine Lee sends news from El Arish. Sergt E Lee at El Arish
- The Orange Land Board concludes its week of hearings concerning the acquisition of four local properties for returned soldiers. Orchards for Soldiers
- Allied forces on the Western Front repulse German attacks near Hurtebise
- General John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing and 190 American soldiers board USS Baltic in New York, bound for France
