![Two members of the Half Flight seated in a Maurice Farman Shorthorn aircraft, Mesopotamia, 1916. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.](https://www.centenaryww1orange.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mesopotamian-half-flight-300x205.jpg)
Two members of the Half Flight seated in a Maurice Farman Shorthorn aircraft, Mesopotamia, 1916. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- The first Australian military aircraft and their crews leave Australia. They would later form the ‘Mesopotamian Half Flight’ and fight in what is now Iraq.
- The Serbian capital of Belgrade is officially captured by the Austro-Hungarians