Pte Thomas Mackay (Lilydale), Anzac Provost Corps: Arrives in Cape Town, South Africa to serve with the Provost Corps there. The Provos are needed here as numbers of Australian troops visit Cape Town on their journey to and from Europe.
Pte Harry Black (Coldstream), 23rd Australian Machine Gun Company: In France. In a postcard to Kath Phillips, Lilydale – ‘I’ve just had seven days in Paris and it’s a great place, talk about gay Lilydale, it’s not in it. We are having bonnie weather lately but don’t know how long it will last’.