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A launch tows a raft carrying artillerymen and guns out to waiting ships during the evacuation of Gallipoli Peninsula, December 1915. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.

A launch tows a raft carrying artillerymen and guns out to waiting ships during the evacuation of Gallipoli Peninsula, December 1915. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.

  • The evacuation of Gallipoli continues; all sick, wounded and surplus troops, vehicles and stores are removed over the following two days
  • The Fourth Battle of the Isonzo ends in north-eastern Italy
  • A fire in Pennsylvania destroys half a million bushels of Canadian wheat destined for Allied forces. Grain Elevators Burn at Erie
  • Military Attache Captain Von Papen, and Naval Attache, Captain Boy-Ed, of the Imperial German Embassy in Washington are recalled from the US, following the United States government request.