The destroyer Comet (Lieutenant Commander Henry D Pridham-Wippell) is sunk by an Austrian submarine in the Mediterranean Sea with a loss of six crew members.
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Arthur Frederick Lakeman
The last night Zeppelin raid of the war takes place. Five Zeppelins make attacks and one of them L70 is shot down.
Four Bristol F2bs are attacked by three Albatros single-seaters while reconnoitering Pergine aerodrome. Though not known at the time by the British the Albatroses are flying a protective patrol while Emperor Karl is on an inspection tour.
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Violet Alice Lambton Long OBE
S S Warilda, an ambulance transport, is torpedoed and sunk between Le Havre and Southampton, and one hundred nine patients and seven of the crew are killed or drowned. Killed in the sinking
Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Frederick Warrington Gillett (Royal Air Force) shoots down the first of twelve enemy aircraft he will destroy by the end of the war.
A large-scale Allied intervention begins at Vladivostok.
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George Leslie Drewry VC
Lieutenant Frederick Stanley Gordon (Royal Air Force) achieves his first victory when he shares shooting down an enemy LVG C with George Gauld over Dickebusch.
Mine laying destroyers Vehement (Lieutenant Commander Hammersley-Heenan) and Ariel (Lieutenant Frank Alan Rothera, killed) are both part of the 20th Destroyer Flotilla that is performing mine laying operations in the Heligoland Bight. Vehement is struck by a mine which causes a magazine explosion which blows off her bow. Attempts to tow her fail and she is eventually scuttled. While attempting to leave the minefield that Vehement has sunk in Ariel also has her bow blown off by a mine and she sinks in less than an hour. Among the almost 100 sailors lost between the two ships is
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Haddo Reginald Drummond-Fraser
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George Edward Henry McElroy
Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson VC (Northamptonshire Regiment) will be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery, skilful leading, and determination in attack. The tactical situation having developed contrary to expectation, it is not possible for his company to adhere to their original plan for deployment, and, owing to the difficulties of the ground, and to enemy wire. Captain Colyer-Fergusson finds himself with a sergeant and five men only. His party is then threatened by a heavy counter-attack from the left front, but this attack he successfully resists. During this operation, assisted by his orderly only, he attacks and captures an enemy machine gun and turns it on the assailants, many of whom are killed, and a large number are driven into the hands of an adjoining unit. Later, assisted only by his sergeant, he again attacks and captures a second machine gun, by which time he has been joined by other portions of his company and is enabled to consolidate his position. He is killed by a sniper shortly afterwards. He is killed at age 21 and is the third and youngest son of Thomas Colyer-Fergusson 3rd Baronet. Captain Colyer-Fergusson was intending to go up to Oriel College, Oxford, but when the war broke out he joined the Public Schools Battalion, subsequently obtaining a temporary commission in February 1915, in the Northamptonshire Regiment, and a permanent one in December 1916. He went to France in November 1915, and was wounded at Contalmaison in July 1916, returning to France the following November. He was appointed Acting Captain in January 1917. His brother will die on service in August 1940 serving in the Royal Army Service Corps.
Lieutenant Gerald Anderson and Second Lieutenant Thomas Sydney Chiltern shoot down a Pfalz D III at Fromelles. Lieutenant George Poole and Sergeant Charles Hill (Royal Air Force) bring down a Fokker D VII at Estaires-Merville.
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Cuthbert Everard Brisley
99 Squadron sets out to bomb Stuttgart but finds low clouds as they near the target. The town of Lahr is bombed instead, but their activities attract a large formation of enemy fighters. Three enemy aircraft are claimed destroyed and another two shot down out of control but two of their DH9’s are shot down east of the lines with 3 of the 4 crew being killed.
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Charles Gordon Bell
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