Pte John Payne (Seville), 5^th Battalion: Died in the 8^th General Hospital in Rouen of wounds he’d received a few days earlier at St Martin’s Wood. He was 26 years old and is buried at the cemetery at Boisguillaume, France.

Pte Edwin Meade (Mooroolbark), 8^th Battalion: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wound to chest, shoulder and left hand, and is evacuated to hospital in England. This is the third time he has been admitted to hospital with shrapnel wounds.

Pte Robert Marshall (Mooroolbark), General Service Reinforcements: Is admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from pleurisy.

The following local soldiers leave Australia bound for Europe on the HMAT Barambah:

Pte Victor Campbell (Silvan), 5^th Battalion

Pte Alfred Rothque (Lilydale), 58^th Battalion

Pte Archibald McLarty (Olinda), 10^th General Reinforcements

Pte Hugh Burns (Lilydale), 11^th General Service Reinforcements

Pte Frank Warwick (Lilydale), 11^th General Service Reinforcements

Pte John Cathcart (Lilydale), Australian Army Service Corps

THE BATTLE OF PERONNE, FRANCE