Pte Frederick Davies x (Kilsyth), 8^th Battalion: Is killed in action during the German push on the allies’ lines at Le Nieppe Forest. He is 26 years old and is buried at the Nieppe-Bois British Cemetery in France. His brother Isaac had been killed in action two years earlier in 1916.

Pte Michael White (Lilydale), 2^nd Pioneer Battalion: He was with a platoon digging trenches between Walrly and Albert near Marloncourt when a shell landed in the trench he was in, killing him. He was 40 years old and as he has no known grave, he is listed on the memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.

Sgt Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance: In the field in France. In his diary – ‘The sights I’ve seen this last few days would melt the heart of a statue, the poor people fleeing for their lives leaving everything behind them except what they can carry. I took four old people in one of our cars this morning from Morbecque to Ellinghen. Going through Hazelbrook a shell burst twenty-five yards ahead of us in the centre of the street. There are thousands of homeless people, we’ve got them pretty well all away from the forward area now, and since we went into the line on their front, Fritz hasn’t advanced an inch’.