3 September 1916

• The last Australian attack on Mouquet Farm; Percy Nuttall of the 50^th Battalion records in his diary:

One Jack Johnson [large German artillery shell] landed on a section near me … I came to my senses covered in flesh and blood and Sgt Edwards told me I said they had got me

• British forces take Ginchy and Guillemont; capturing many prisoners
• French soldiers take the villages of Le Forest and Clery-sur-Somme
• British troops repulse an attack by the Prussian Guard at Thiepval