From his headquarters at Aix-la-Chapelle the Kaiser issues his ‘Order of the Day’. “It is my Royal and Imperial command that you concentrate your energies, for the immediate present upon one single purpose, and that is that you address all your skill and all the valor of my soldiers to exterminate first the treacherous English; walk over General French’s contemptible little Army”. Members of the British Expeditionary Force will proudly adopt the moniker ‘Old Contemptibles’ after the war and name their post-war veterans’ association accordingly.
The cabinet orders 162,000 shrapnel shells.
Lord Derby’s appeal results in the first of several ‘Service’ battalions in the King’s Liverpool Regiment. They will be comprised of citizens of the same town, recruited, equipped and serving together.
Captain Philip B Joubert de la Ferte, in a Bleriot Tandem XI-2 and Lieutenant Gilbert William Mapplebeck, in a B.E.2 carry out the first two reconnaissance flights across the lines in France performed by the Royal Flying Corps. They begin together but each pilot subsequently takes his own route. Lieutenant Mapplebeck will be accidentally killed in August 1915.
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