THE BATTLE OF LONE PINE, ANZAC COVE, GALLIPOLI (AUGUST 6^th – 9^th)

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘A heavy bombardment started on Friday 6^th before the landing at Suvla and the Turks gave back as much as we sent, so you can see we had a hot time’.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘At 3pm this afternoon our guns started a heavy bombardment on the Turk’s trenches and at 5.30pm our boys jumped over our parapets and charged them with the bayonet. We captured four rows of trenches on our right and other parts of the line were partially successful, our casualties heavy’.

Pte John Rose (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion: Is wounded in action for a second time at Anzac Cove, gunshot wound to the head as well as shock, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Mudros Island. While here he also contracts jaundice.

Pte Charles Osborne (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches.

Joseph Speakman (Coldstream): Leaves his job as a miner and enlists in the AIF, he is 18 years old.