Friday January 14, 1916. Collins resigns British employment.
Michael Collins resigned from his employment in London at the Guaranty Trust Company n order to return to Ireland. He was already a clandestine Irish revolutionary.
Severe flooding caused dikes to burst at Zuiderzee, Netherlands.
The Royal Flying Corps ordered that reconnaissance planes have an escort of at least three fighters flying in close formation with them, and that a reconnaissance aircraft must abort its flight if even one of the three fighters becomes detached from the formation for any reason, due to highly losses from Fokker Eindeckers.
