![The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at The Nek 7 August 1915, George Lambert, 1924. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.](https://www.centenaryww1orange.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The_charge_of_the_3rd_Light_Horse_Brigade_at_the_Nek_7_August_1915-300x236.jpg)
The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at The Nek 7 August 1915, George Lambert, 1924.
Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
- The 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade attacks Turkish trenches at The Nek, only to be mown down by machine-gun fire: 375 of the 600-strong Brigade become casualties, with 234 dead. Charles Bean would later write:
The flower of the youth of Victoria and Western Australia fell in that attempt
- Joseph George Thew is killed in action at the Battle of Lone Pine
- Henry George Eardley Rotton is killed in action at the Battle of Lone Pine
- British forces make little headway at Suvla, while forces in the Sari Bair range also fail to seize their objectives
- The Leader runs the following notice: