Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Our boys are well dug in now, casualties very small today. I went to the trenches tonight but no wounded men, not much shrapnel today. The snipers are very bad, one beggar fired ten shots at me today, they lobed all round but none hit me. The infantry say we are all heroes, nobody can imagine the

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to a friend in Lilydale – ‘We stopped in the trenches till Friday morning, 30th, getting very little sleep, when we were relieved by the 9th Battalion. We went back to the beach and dug like rabbits into a big hole in the side of the cliff. Then we had a bathe in the sea, with bullets falling too

Sgt William McLeod (Lilydale), 5th Battalion: He and another Sergeant rescue a detachment of marines who were trapped in battle outposts at Wire Gully and were completely covered by Turkish fire. Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘I am sitting in my dug out and its death to poke your head out. We are on a hill about one hundred yards from

Pte Duncan Campbell (Wandin), 5th Battalion: Is wounded in action, injury to right thumb, and is eventually evacuated to hospital in Malta. Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘6pm: Our usual evening reception is now on. Have just counted about fifty shells which landed in the water one hundred yards from the shore, the Turks do make some holes there. About a

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘I’ve been through hell and out again. Last night the New Zealanders took a hill and got terribly cut up, had to leave the new position. Our chaps also took a hill and I think still hold it. Our section got called out at 9pm and I got in for a spell at midday today. Some of the

Gnr Howard Guttmann (Olinda), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wound, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Mudros Island.

Pte Lyndon Watt (Lilydale), 6th Battalion: At Cape Helles. In a letter to his friends in Lilydale – ‘On 5th May our brigade re-embarked and sailed down the end of the Peninsula and landed at Fort Ledd et Bahr, where British and French troops had already driven the Turks back about three miles’. Edith Yeaman (Montrose): Leaves her position as a nurse at the Melbourne Hospital and joins the Australian

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: At Cape Helles. In his diary – ‘At 1am this morning we were called out to prepare to embark (2nd Brigade). At 4am we boarded lighters and were towed out to a mine sweeper and embarked on her (Folkestone) after 1½ hours sail we disembarked at Cape Helles, at the place where the British and French landed and marched inland to about 1½

Pte Frederick Crooks (Wandin), 6th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove with his regiment and moved up into the front line trenches. Trp Kavan Lawlor (Coldstream), 8th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Palermo. Alfred Eades (Montrose): Leaves his job as a clerk and enlists in the AIF, he is 19 years old.

THE BATTLE OF KRITHIA, CAPES HELLES, DARDANELLES, GALLIPOLI Pte Richard Glass (Lilydale), 5th Battalion: Is wounded in action, gunshot wound to the thigh, and is evacuated from Cape Helles to hospital in Malta. In a letter to friends in Lilydale – ‘Our brigade left ten days after we landed to go to Gallipoli to assist the French and British troops there. We were told by our CO that on account

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: At Cape Helles. In his diary – ‘At dawn this morning we went up to the trenches and just as we left the Turks opened hell on us. I gave myself up; I never thought we had a chance of getting through as we had no cover. So we gripped the stretchers and stooping low made a run for it. The bullets showered

THE BATTLE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE – FRANCE (MAY 10th – 13th) Gnr Alfred Niblett (Lilydale), 19th Battery, Royal Field Artillery: In France. Writing to a friend in Lilydale –‘The bombardment of Neuve Chappelle was a hell of its own. We have had several similar ones since. We gave them a proper shaking up too. We will give them ‘baby killers’ before we have done with them. One thing, you are fairly

Pte Walter Staff (Wandin), 14th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering from influenza.

Pte John Irwin (Mooroolbark), 17th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Themistocles. Pte Alfred Parish (Lilydale), 13th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt for a second time on HMAT Themistocles.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: At Cape Helles. In his diary –‘The enemy got a big gun in position today. Have made it very uncomfortable for us, it sends a nasty feeling through you to hear the shells coming. You wait to see it burst, not knowing if it’s going to blow you up, you breathe a sigh of relief when you see it’s missed and you wait

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: At Cape Helles. In his diary –‘I had a miraculous escape from being blown to pieces today. I was standing talking to Capt Chambers alongside of his dugout, which he had just come out of, when a shell dropped right in to it. We were showered with dirt and debris but got off without a scratch. From then on for an hour we

Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: On Anzac Cove. Letter written to his brother George from Gallipoli – ‘Our boys are giving the Turks a terrible caning. The Australian have got a great name here. They call the Australians the ‘White faced Gurkhas’. The rifle fire on both sides keeps going all night. The Turks use explosive bullets which make a terrible row when they hit anything. My dug-out

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: At Cape Helles. In a letter to his mother –‘I’ve been in two engagements so far, and thank God came out safely. I’ve had so many narrow squeaks that I hardly take any notice of the bullets now. I’ve had a bullet through my cap, one through my puttee and was struck on the shoulder by a shrapnel bullet, which, lucky for me,

Dvr Harry Hoadley (Olinda), 5th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering varicose veins and hernia. Ordinary Seaman Nolan Footit (Gruyere), HMAS Cerberus: While stationed at the naval base, HMAS Cerberus, he deserts from the Royal Australian Navy. The following year he enlists in the AIF under the name John Willis.

Sr Edith Yeaman (Montrose), Australian Army Nursing Service: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the RMS Mooltan.

Pte Ormond Footit (Lilydale), 2nd ANZAC Light Horse: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on board the HMAT Caledonia. Harold Bartram (Olinda): Leaves his job as a merchant and enlists in the AIF, he is 34 years old.

Pte George Vale (Lilydale), 8th Field Ambulance: Is landed at Anzac Cove and reports for duty.

Pte Ormond Footit (Lilydale), Tpr John Taggart (Wandin) & Trp Albert Briers (Lilydale), all 4th Light Horse Regiment: Are landed at Anzac Cove with the regiment and moved up into the trenches at Ryrie’s Post. Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: On Anzac Cove. Letter written to his brother George from Gallipoli –‘The Light Horse have arrived without their horses and will have to go into the trenches’.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to his mother –‘Our ships bombarded the Turkish position on our right very heavy this morning. Most of our Light Horse are here now, turned into infantry. A German Taube flew over this morning and dropped a couple of bombs, one dropped quite close to us. They cause a fearful explosion when they burst, more than shells’.

Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: On Anzac Cove. Letter written to his brother George from Gallipoli –‘Things are a bit quiet lately. The Turks asked for an armistice last week to enable them to bury their dead;there were thousands of them and the armistice lasted from 7.30 amto 4.30 pm. Our burial parties and theirs were talking and exchanging smokes. It was just like a holiday for

Sgt Noel Syme (Gruyere), 1st Australian Clearing Hospital: Lands at Anzac Cove and reports for duty. Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: On Anzac Cove. Letter written to his brother George from Gallipoli: ‘I saw the Triumph torpedoed on Monday. It happened at 12.30 pm. A wall of water went over the ship and when it cleared the Triumph had a big list. It took twenty minutes for

Pte Fred Whiteside (Lilydale), 14th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Trp Allen Mounsey (Seville), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Afric.

Cpl Arthur Chapman (Wandin), 13th Field Artillery Brigade: Is landed at Anzac Cove and reports for duty. Leonard Walters (Wandin): Leaves his property ‘Cleveland’ at Wandin and enlists in the AIF, he is 24 years old.

Trp Rae Lucke (Montrose), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Persic. Trp Henry Maidment (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Persic. Trp George Lysaght (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Persic. Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Persic. From his

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Except for a bit of shelling, things rather quiet today. Altho at 3am this morning the Turks blew up some of our trenches and then charged with hand grenades but we gave it to them hot. Our losses; one hundred killed and wounded, and theirs; three hundred and eighteen prisoners’.

Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: On Anzac Cove. Letter written to his brother George from Gallipoli – ‘Some of us went round one of the gullies the other evening to see some mates. We were sitting in a dugout talking to them. Three of the boys had legs sticking out, and a sniper wounded them all through the legs with one bullet. A Red Cross man was

Pte Harry Allen (Mt Evelyn), 2nd Field Ambulance: Is wounded in action, six gunshot wounds to the chest and arms, while carrying a wounded soldier to safety and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Sgt Frank Olle (Gruyere), 5th Battalion: Dies in hospital in Egypt after the wounds he’d received at the landing on April 25th become septic. He is 28 years old and is buried at

Andrew Ragartz (Seville): Leaves his family’s property in Seville and enlists in the AIF, he is 25 years old. His older brother Albert enlists a month later. Bruce Timms (Yering): Working in Adelaide at the time, he leaves his job as a clerk and enlists in the AIF, he is 19 years old.

Trp James Rushton (Lilydale), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Botanist. Harry Linacre (Seville): Born in Liverpool, England he had come out to Australia a few years earlier and at the time of enlisting in the AIF he was working for Mr Murray of Seville as a carpenter. He was 23 years old and engaged to a local girl, Elsie Mitchell. He had already served

Pte Ernest Commerford (Lilydale), 23rd Battalion: On the HMAT Euripides travelling to Egypt. In a letter to friends in Lilydale – ‘We reached the Red Sea on June 3rd, when the weather became stifling and no matter what part of the ship you went to, one could not get cool; the sea was dead calm being just like a huge sheet of glass’. Walter Horne (Wandin): Leaves his job as

Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Ajana. Pte Ernest Williams (Lilydale), 6th Field Ambulance: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Ajana. AB Spr John Lucke (Montrose), 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HT Port Macquarie.

Pte Frank Kingsley-Norris (Lilydale), 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance: Is sent to England to work as a medical orderly. In an excerpt from his auto-biography ‘No Memories for Pain’ –‘I was posted as medical orderly to No 1 Australian Hospital at Harefield Park in Middlesex, the private home of a patriotic Australian, set in acres of beautiful parkland with age-old oaks, elms and chestnuts. There I met up with two

Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: On Anzac Cove. Letter written to his brother George from Gallipoli – ‘I am still in the same place and things are fairly quiet, if you can call it so. Our boys hit up a bit the other night and made a charge and took some trenches. I think the Turks are short of ammunition: they do not fire so many shells

Pte Herbert Read (Seville), 6th Battalion: In hospital on Malta. In a letter written to his sister Florence: ‘I am getting on well, I can see a little bit out of my left eye now and the treatment we get is lovely; it’s quite a good holiday to get away from the front. …I suppose by the time I get back home, nearly all the fighting will be done there…

Dvr Leo Maxwell (Wandin), 1st Field Artillery Brigade: Is admitted to hospital while stationed in Egypt suffering from gastritis and conjunctivitis. He is later evacuated to England for further medical treatment.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Water is pretty scarce. The wells the engineers sunk have all dried up and it is a crime for any man to wash himself or his clothes or dishes in fresh water. After being on night duty we try to sleep during the day but it’s impossible because of the heat and flies, we could stand the

Pte Arthur ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 5th Battalion: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to friends in Lilydale – ‘On June 11 we went into the firing line again. We had to climb up the hill we were on by means of rope. Horses cannot be used here and all the guns are hauled up the steep cliffs and hills by the infantry. The place is all hills. Roads have been

Pte Felix Hargrave (Lilydale), 7th Battalion: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to his Aunty in Lilydale – ‘I am still in the land of the living. I have been in the thick of it from the first – April 25 – I’ve had close on three months’ hard fighting battles and have been lucky. I have seen some awful sights at the front. We have had to endure some

Gnr Alfred Niblett (Lilydale), 19th Battery, Royal Field Artillery: In France. Writing to a friend in Lilydale: ‘I have been in the firing line in France about five months now, and by the look of things appear like being here a few more months yet. This is a war, and no mistake the Huns are a dirty lot of fighters. No doubt you have read about their inhuman methods of trying

Stoker Charles Ebeling (Wandin): After finishing his training at HMAS Cerberus, he is posted to HMAS Encounter, a challenger class cruiser. He would spend the next three years as part of the crew, mainly patrolling the Fiji – Samoa area of the Pacific and off the Malayan coast. Pte Charles Cox (Gruyere), 6th Battalion: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches. Pte Richard Robertson

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘A couple of nights ago, just about 5pm, two or three barrels were washed ashore. A crowd soon collected and many were the tips made after smelling them as to what they contained, some said beer, others vinegar, wine etc. They soon knocked a hole in the end and out poured wine (claret). The news spread like

Pte Donald Fergus Scott (Mt Evelyn), 6th Battalion: In hospital in Egypt. In a letter to his father in Mt Evelyn – ‘I was in hospital for a fortnight after being wounded at the landing, and then detailed for duty in the 1st Australian General Hospital until I am fit to go back to the front and the sooner the more agreeable to me, I had quite enough of the

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Eight weeks today since we landed, eight weeks and never knowing what minute you are going to get bowled over. It’s a bit trying on the nerves, a lot of chaps are getting the jumps, I am beginning to feel it a bit myself’.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘We’ve got another trouble on us now, a sniper has got the track in front of our camp picked off, the only track we can use, he got six chaps in two days. Every time we go along we wonder if we’ll get past and just as we get on the track we get zip, ping, past

Spr Charles Noden (Lilydale), 2nd Field Engineers: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Mudros Island suffering from lumbago. Walter Thompson (Wandin): Leaves his property at Wandin in the care of his wife and enlists in the AIF, he is forty-four years old. This is his second attempt to enlist, he had tried in 1914 but was rejected on account of his height. His 19 year old son William

Trp Gilbert Mounsey (Seville), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove suffering from influenza and sent to hospital on Lemnos Island. Thomas Strachan (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a bookbinder and enlists in the AIF, he is 20 years old.

Pte Wilfred Tucker (Mt Dandenong), 7th Battalion:  Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved to the frontline trenches. Trp Thomas Ogilvy (Seville), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Royal George. Trp Leslie Gamble (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Ceramic. Sr Alicia Kelly (Mt Dandenong), Australian Army Nursing Service: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Wandilla. Edward Hitchings

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: On Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘The Turks threw over a note, in which they asked us to surrender, and told us that our warships had deserted us and that our stores would soon run out and we would starve. ‘At any rate’, went on this highly humorous episode, ‘we were only fulfilling a contract for greedy England and she had now deserted

Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Egypt. From his diary – ‘We eventually arrived at Suez on June 29th, losing on the voyage one man and thirty horses. We were very glad to get off the boat and the horses were I am sure. Not greatly impressed with the niggers, they seemed to be very lazy and had to be driven to work, also being

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to his mother –‘Wonderful to relate we never lost a man while we were landing. I wish I could say the same now. The casualties in our own corps have been heavy, I can’t tell you the number, I’m not allowed, but I have lost some of my best pals, the last one a few evenings ago.

Stoker Albert Clegg (Wandin): After finishing his training at HMAS Cerberus he is assigned to HMAS Psyche, a Pelorus third-class protected cruiser, and for the next six months the ship would be on patrol in the Bay of Bengal and off the coast of Burma. Thomas Butcher (Yering): Leaves his job working as a farm hand around Yering and enlists in the AIF, he is 18 years old. As he

Pte Felix Hargrave (Lilydale), 7th Battalion: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to his sister in Lilydale – ‘The Jack Tars are fine chaps, and they think a lot of us lads. There is every uniform you could think of here – French, Algerian, Cingalese, Highlanders, Irish Fusiliers, Australians, New Zealanders, Tommies, etc besides a lot of different Indian soldiers. I reckon, between the lot of us, we ought to

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: In his diary – ‘We were relieved from the trenches and half the battalion were put on sapping, and the rest at general fatigues etc’. Cpl Henry Hunt (Lilydale), 6th Battalion: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wounds to the legs, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. James Clegg (Wandin): Leaves his family’s orchard in Wandin where he works and enlists

Spr Charles Noden (Lilydale), 2nd Field Engineers: Arrives back with his unit on Anzac Cove after spending time in hospital on Mudros Island.

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘I had rather a narrow escape this evening. While having tea, a big 5.7 armour piece fell about 10ft, behind my dugout, and after burying itself about 4ft in the ground, it exploded and sent pieces of shell and dirt spattering all round me’. Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Egypt. From

Stoker James McClure (Yering), HMAS Pioneer: Is with the British naval force in the attack on the German Cruiser Konigsberg. Back in December the British Admiralty had requested the aid of HMAS Pioneer in the blockade of the Konigsberg off the coast of Africa, it had taken shelter beyond the range of effective fire in the mouth of the Rufigi River south of Zanzibar. They arrived there in February and

Pte Felix Hargrave (Lilydale), 7th Battalion:  Is wounded in action, shellshock and concussion, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Malta and then England. In a letter to his sister in Lilydale – ‘I have been lucky up till now, when I got buried alive by a couple of 8-inch shells. Four mates and myself had just come off duty from the firing line and were having our

Percy Barratt (Olinda): Leaves his job as a farmer on his father’s property at Olinda and enlists in the AIF, he is 18 years old. His older brother Edward who enlist the following year. Edmund Boulter (Olinda): Leaves his orchard at Olinda and enlists in the AIF, he is 20 years old. His brother Victor would enlist the following year. Bert Hutchinson (Lilydale): Leaves his job at his father’s store

Pte Vincent Lawlor (Gruyere), 5th Battalion: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches. Pte Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division: Disembarks from the ship at Southampton, England. He is one of the first local soldiers with the AIF to arrive in Europe for duty. Reg Charteris (Wandin): Leaves his orchard at Wandin and enlists in the AIF, he is 28 years old. Leslie Coppin

Stoker James McClure (Yering), HMAS Pioneer: Sitting off the mouth of the Rufigi River south of Zanzibar. In a letter to a friend in Yering –‘We went back again and this time the ‘Konigsberg’ was destroyed completely but two British aeroplanes had been brought down, the crews of which were picked up by the ‘Mersey’. That ended the battle – a complete victory for us. I hope to have a chance

Sr Alicia Kelly (Mt Dandenong), Australian Army Nursing Service: Arrives in Egypt and reports for duty at No 1 Australian General Hospital in Cairo, set up to care for casualties from the Gallipoli campaign. Spr Charles Noden (Lilydale), 2nd Field Engineers: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Malta suffering from influenza. Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘Great was our joy

William Bedford (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 28 years old. Harry Dinsdale (Olinda): Leaves his job as a driver and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 23 years old. Thomas Harvey (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a clerk and enlists in the AIF, he is 38 years old. William Jenner (Wandin): Born in Wandin, although living in Burwood at

George Deacon (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a clerk and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. William Parkinson (Coldstream): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 36 years old and married.

Richard Hand (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 28 years old. Robert King (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 30 years old. George Milne (Lilydale): Leaves his newsagents and stationery supplies store in Lilydale in the hands of his mother and sister and enlists in the AIF, he is 35 years old. Even though

Walter Emery (Seville): Leaves his family’s property at Woori Yallock and his job as a gardener in Seville to enlist in the AIF, he is 18 years old. This is the second time he has tried to enlist; the previous time he had been rejected on account of his teeth. William Hawkey (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a barman and enlists in the AIF, he is 31 years old. It

The following local soldiers leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Demosthenes: Pte Leonard Walters (Wandin), 6th Battalion Pte Henry Warwick (Lilydale), 8th Battalion Pte James Fraser (Yering), 23rd Battalion Pte Harry Linacre (Seville), 24th Battalion Pte James Reade (Yering), 24th Battalion Richard Goodall (Gruyere): Leaves his job as a painter and enlists in the AIF, he is 24 years old. Howard Morey (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a draper

Pte Leonard Giddins (Olinda), 7th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Mudros Island suffering from pyrexia. Pte Barney Gilson (Lilydale), 14th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Egypt on board the HT Kyarra to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of developing a hernia. He would soon be operated on and the following year re-enlist. Charles Harrison (Wandin): Leaves his job as a grocer and

Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Egypt. From his diary – ‘We get up at 5 o’clock, have a cup of tea and drill till 9 o’clock as it is too hot for either man or horses in the middle of the day. We have to take our turn at guarding the Turkish prisoners at Mahdi. It is a bit of a change for us,

Frank Austin (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a factory hand and enlists in the AIF, he is 19 years old. Ernest Bolitho (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a factory employee and enlists in the AIF, he is 22 years old. George Evans (Mt Evelyn): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 25 years old. Charles Fraser (Yering): Leaves his family’s vineyard where he works

Charles Cooper (Wandin): Leaves his farm in Wandin to enlist in the AIF, he is 32 years old and married with two children. Louis Herry (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a carter to enlist in the AIF, he is 18 years old. Michael Griffin (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a butcher to enlist in the AIF, he is 21 years old. William Town (Lilydale): Leaves his farm at Lilydale to

George & Ernest Gilbert (Yering): Together the two brothers leave their family’s property at Yering and enlist. George in the Australian Light Horse, he is 29 years old, and Ernest in the AIF, he is 24 years old. Their younger brother, Gus Gilbert, would follow them and enlist a few days later. Ernest Dutton (Wandin): Leaves his property in Wandin to enlist in the AIF, he is 29 years old.

AB Spr John Lucke (Montrose), 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train: Lands at Anzac Cove and reports for duty. Pte Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division – attached to 17th Divisional Supply Column, British Expeditionary Forces: In France. In a letter to Dr Cross in Lilydale – ‘Glad to say I am at last in France, with every prospect of seeing something of this great war. The corps has been

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘We went back to Anzac Cove again and into our old place at Steel’s Post trenches on the 19th. Here I had another narrow escape, a shrapnel shell burst over the trenches about 30 yards in front of me, and I got a knock on the head with a bit of the shell; it nearly put me

Pte Wilfred Tucker (Mt Dandenong), 7th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Mudros Island suffering from septic hands. He would later return. Leopold Muir (Wandin): Having already enlisted in 1914, and then being discharged a few months later as medically unfit because of his teeth, he attempts to enlist again and is successful. He comes from a family with a rich military heritage, his grandfather, James Stowe, had served

Pte Vincent Lawlor (Gruyere), 5th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Egypt as a result of defective teeth. John Medhurst (Gruyere): Leaves his job as an orchardist in Gruyere and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. John Purcell (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 25 years old. John Thomson (Mt Evelyn): Leaves his job as a labourer and

Gus Gilbert (Yering): Leaves his family’s property at Yering and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. His older brothers, George & Ernest Gilbert, had enlisted a few days before. Alfred Pomeroy (Wandin): Born in Wandin and living in Sea Lake at the time, he enlists in the AIF, he is 28 years old.

Dvr Adolphus Geiger (Lilydale), 1st Division Motor Corps: Is admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from tonsillitis. Isaac Davies (Kilsyth): Leaves his job as an Engine Driver in Western Australia, where he had been working, and enlists in the AIF, he is 38 years old, married and had previously served in the Anglo-Boer War with the 4th Australian Commonwealth Horse. Two of his brothers have already enlisted and another two

William Marshall (Wandin): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 19 years old.

William Williams (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 26 years old.

Gnr Arthur Fenton (Mt Dandenong), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Is admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from neuralgia. Frank Maher (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a wheelwright and enlists in the AIF, he is 19 years old. Lionel Whisson (Lilydale): Leaves his job and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old.

Pte Walter Emery (Seville): Having enlisted only two weeks before, he was sent to the AIF training camp at Flemington. He wasn’t here long before he became ill and was sent to the Flemington Base Hospital suffering from cerebro spinal meningitis and toxaemia. He died there on this day at 9.00am and was buried at the Coburg Cemetery, he is 20 years old. Ove Ovesen (Seville): Born in Western Australia

Pte John Rose (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Re-joins his unit on Anzac Cove after recovering from wounds he had received just after the landing. Trp Allen Mounsey (Seville) & Dvr William Lysaght (Lilydale), both 9th Light Horse Regiment: Are landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Pte Felix Hargrave (Lilydale), 7th Battalion: In hospital in Malta. In a letter to his sister in Lilydale – ‘Malta is

John Ellis (Mt Evelyn): Leaves his family’s property ‘Pine Mont’ at Mt Evelyn and enlists in the AIF, he is 22 years old.

Cpl Harold Ritchie (Kilsyth), 49th Battalion: Is wounded in action, concussion from shell blast, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Sr Edith Yeaman (Montrose), 3rd Australian General Hospital: Arrives at Mudros Island and serves at the makeshift hospital here until January 1916. Trp Robert Purves (Lilydale), 3rd Light Horse Regiment: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches.

THE BATTLE OF LONE PINE, ANZAC COVE, GALLIPOLI (AUGUST 6th – 9th) Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘A heavy bombardment started on Friday 6th 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), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘At

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘We did not take an active part in the Suvla Bay landing, it was carried out by Territorials and Kitchener’s army troops, who landed early in the morning with little opposition and were about three miles inland before they were opposed. They continued to advance and reached an important hill (971) before they entrenched, and there have

Pte David Mitchell (Lilydale), 14th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Pte Harry Stevens (Seville), 8th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Dvr Percy Whyte (Olinda) and Dvr James Whyte (Olinda), both 10th Australian Army Service Corps: Are landed at Anzac Cove and report for duty. Lindsay Yeaman (Montrose): Leaves he job as a mechanic and

Theodore Hand (Mt Dandenong): Leaves his father’s farm at Mt Dandenong and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 20 years old. George ‘Bung’ Hamilton (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 40 years old and married with two children. Vivian Grenness (Kilsyth): Leave his studies at Melbourne University to enlist in the AIF, he is 20 years old.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Had some narrow escapes from 11 inch shells today. They were bursting right above our dressing station, one buried six infantry chaps standing alongside us, and then when I get back to our camp for a spell I’m blowed if a monitor doesn’t put a shell in our camp’. Pte George Harrison (Wandin), 14th Battalion: Leaves Australia

Sgt Harry Matthews (Seville), 2nd Field Ambulance: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove suffering from colitis. He would eventually be sent to hospital in Malta and then to England. Norman Hooke (Kilsyth): Leaves his job as a coach painter and enlists in the AIF, he is 19 years old. His older brother enlists the following year. Joseph Keeley Snr (Mooroolbark): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF,

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Had a look at Lonesome Pine from Johnston’s Jolly today, think we’ve got old Abdul well stoushed there but reckon he holds us at Chess Board, German Officer’s Trench & Quinn’s Post. The Turk’s trenches are beautifully made, are practically safe from shrapnel. In the Lonesome Pine trenches what a sight at daylight, the dead lying four

Pte Wilfred Tucker (Mt Dandenong), 7th Battalion: Arrives back at Anzac Cove after recovering from septic hands and moves back to the frontline trenches.

Sapper Joseph Sies (Wandin), 2nd Field Company Engineers: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Mudros Island suffering from influenza. At the hospital he would later also contract dysentery. Sgt Thomas Williams (Lilydale), 11th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in England suffering from gastro enteritis.

Pte William Long (Silvan), 8th Battalion: Is wounded in action, shattered jaw, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove and eventually sent to a hospital on Malta. Pte David Mitchell (Lilydale), 14th Battalion: Is officially reported missing but later found in hospital on Mudros Island suffering from enteritis.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘Sixteen weeks we’ve been in the firing line without relief. It’s cruel, the heads must be mad not to give us a spell, its breaking our spirit, hundreds of men are being sent away every week utterly run down. We are nearly all suffering from diarrhoea and dysentery and hundreds of men are suffering fearfully from

Pte Alfred Leonard (Olinda), 21st Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and joins his unit in the front line trenches.

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘I had another close shave here. We used to have a lot of trouble with Turkish snipers. At the point where we were, their trenches were only about 200 yards away, and early in the morning when the sun was behind them we used to snipe them through their loopholes. One morning I started to plant a

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering from dysentery and gastritis. Pte Walter Horne (Wandin), 8th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Kyarra. Leslie Sessions (Silvan): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 18 years old. His older brother Benjamin would enlist in two months’ time.

Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Egypt. From his diary –‘We are told that we are going to Gallipoli as infantry and exchange our equipment for web. We dump all our saddles and leather equipment in a bag and put our names on it. We eventually get our web equipment together and our packs filled with the things we think we will need most and

Pte Felix Hargrave (Lilydale), 7th Battalion:  At St David’s Hospital on Malta. In a letter to his sister in Lilydale – ‘Since I last wrote I have been moved to this hospital. There are about 100 big marquee tents, all lined with yellow calico; there are 12 beds in each tent, with good horsehair mattresses. I expect I will be going to the convalescent camp in a few days, and after

Pte Henry Holbrook (Montrose), 8th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital on Anzac Cove suffering from febrile and is evacuated to hospital in Egypt. Cpl Rupert Bloom (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from enteric fever. Pte James Fraser (Yering), 23rd Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from kidney stones. Ralph Garth (Wandin): Leaves his father’s property in Wandin and enlists in the AIF, he

Reginald Summers (Seville): A regular visitor to Seville where he often helped his brother Walter on his property ‘Mt Marion’, he enlisted in the AIF at the age of 21. He had served for two years with the Trinity Grammar Cadets.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Anchises: Pte Norman Avard (Olinda), 6th Battalion Pte Frank Dixon (Wandin), 7th Battalion Pte Alfred Fairbank (Montrose), 7th Battalion Pte Alfred Sutherland (Wandin), 22nd Battalion Pte Harold Dozell (Lilydale), 24th Battalion

Sgt Noel Syme (Gruyere), 1st Australian Clearing Hospital: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove suffering from influenza. He is eventually sent to hospital in England.

Trp Walter Dawson (Lilydale), 9th Light Horse: Is killed in action at Lone Pine. He is 19 years old and as he has no known grave he is remembered on the memorial at Lone Pine. Dvr William Lysaght (Lilydale), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Is wounded in action at Lone Pine, gunshot wound to foot, and is evacuated from the peninsula to hospital in England. Pte Thomas Mackay (Lilydale), 8th Battalion:

Sr Alicia Kelly (Mt Dandenong), Australian Army Nursing Service: Leaves Egypt bound for Australia on board the HT Euripides. Her role on board is to care for the sick and wounded returning home from the Gallipoli campaign. She would return to Egypt in December 1915. Pte Richard Grossman (Mt Dandenong), 7th Battalion: Is returned home to Australia on the HMAT Euripides as a result of the wound he received in

L/Cpl Walter Summers (Seville), Pte Harry Boxall (Silvan) & Pte Leslie Farndon (Mt Dandenong), all 23rd Battalion: Land at Anzac Cove and move up into the front line trenches. Pte David Lohman (Lilydale), Pte Levi Trayford (Lilydale) & Pte Claude Atkinson (Lilydale), all 24th Battalion: Land at Anzac Cove and move up into the front line trenches. Pte Michael Griffin (Lilydale), 17th Battalion: Lands at Anzac Cove and moves up

Pte Alfred Parish (Lilydale), 13th Battalion: Land at Anzac Cove and move up into the front line trenches.

Trp Gilbert Mounsey (Seville), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Is wounded in action, gunshot wound to the right hand, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Percy Johnston (Olinda): Leaves his job as a draftsman and enlists in the AIF, he is 23 years old.

THE SINKING OF THE TROOPSHIP ‘SOUTHLAND’ The following locals are on board the ‘Southland’ when it is torpedoed. Pte Thomas Eales (Olinda), 21st Battalion Pte Harry Dawson (Lilydale), 21st Battalion Pte Leslie Jack (Lilydale), 21st Battalion Pte Richard Plummer (Olinda), 21st Battalion Cpl James Drummond Burns (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: In a letter to his father he writes – ‘I wonder if you have heard yet of the torpedoing of our

Pte Ernest Clow (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: After recovering from the wounds he received at the landing he is sent back to Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches with his unit. Sgt Harold Clark (Gruyere), 27th Battalion: Lands at Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches.

Pte Henry Lalor (Montrose), 7th Battalion: He is wounded by shrapnel in the right hand while on board the hospital ship HMHS Salta off the coast of Gallipoli.

Pte Arthur Mattingley (Wandin), Divisional Ammunition Column: In camp in Egypt. In a letter to a friend in Wandin – ‘We are still camped at Cleopatra near Alexandria. Troops of all descriptions are here – Tommies, Australians, French and Indians with their various arms and armaments. The soldiers daily bathe in Cleopatra’s Pool which is at times very rough, consequently many of the swimmers get into difficulties and it has

Pte Richard Plummer (Olinda), Pte Leslie Jack (Seville), Pte Thomas Eales (Lilydale) &Cpl James Drummond Burns (Lilydale), all 21st Battalion: Land at Anzac Cove and are moved up into the front line trenches at Courtney’s Post. Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In a letter to friends in Lilydale – ‘We were finally relieved by the 21st Battalion and soon after our Battalion left the Peninsula for

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Orders this afternoon to prepare to embark. Boarded barges 8pm, towed to HMS Clacton, arrived Lemnos Island 10am. Marched into camp tired, dirty, ragged, crummy, hungry, but happy. The first time for five months that we have not heard the crack of rifles and scream of shells. So far the 1st and 2nd Brigades have been relieved’.

Pte Clyde Hoffman (Montrose), 7th Battalion: Lands at Anzac Cove to re-join his unit and is moved up into the front line trenches. Pte George Hannah (Mt Evelyn), 7th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HT Star of Victoria. Pte Thomas Butcher (Yering), 5th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HT Star of Victoria. Sgt Wilmot Stephens (Lilydale), 5th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on

Trp James Rushton (Lilydale), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Lands at Anzac Cove and is moved up to the frontline trenches. Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Lands at Anzac Cove and is moved up to the frontline trenches. From his diary (Gallipoli): ‘In the afternoon we leave Lemnos for the Anzacs. Towards midnight we hear for the first time war and see the gun boats using the searchlights

Pte David Lohman (Lilydale), 24th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering from dysentery. Hewitt Hussey (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a contractor and enlists in the AIF, he is 18 years old. Arthur Jeeves (Mt Dandenong): Leaves his job as a carpenter and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 26 years old.

Martin Hatfield (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a cab proprietor and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 48 years old but he tells the authorities he is 44. Arthur Stallworthy (Lilydale): Leaves his estate agent’s business and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 49 years old.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on SS Makarini: Pte Thomas Strachan (Lilydale), 5th Battalion Pte Alfred Blanksby (Wandin), 8th Battalion Pte Francis Hughes (Lilydale), 8th Battalion Pte Henry Lord (Wandin), 8th Battalion Pte David Ogilvy (Seville), 8th Battalion Pte John Purcell (Lilydale), 8th Battalion Pte Andrew Ragartz (Seville), 8th Battalion Pte Bruce Timms (Yering), 14th Battalion Pte Ernest Kerslake (Lilydale), 26th Battalion Pte Harry Moore (Lilydale), 26th

Trp Kavan Lawlor (Coldstream), 8th Light Horse Regiment: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches with his regiment, which has been decimated after the charge at the Nek the month before. Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his diary –‘Of the original one hundred and eight bearers who landed on the 25th of April, only thirty of us came

Cpl James Drummond Burns (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: He was in the front line at Courtney’s Post when the Turkish forces fired an artillery barrage upon their position. Private Robert Glenister later told a friend –‘There was a Turkish demonstration; Jimmy said ‘Don’t let them have their own way, boys’. He got up and fired four shots. ‘They’re shooting at me! They’re shooting at me!’ he said, and two shots later

Pte Richard Plummer (Olinda), 21st Battalion: Is wounded in action, bullet wound to the eye, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Pte Frederick Davies (Kilsyth), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove and eventually to hospital in England suffering from acute gastritis. Pte Harry Stevens (Seville), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Lemnos suffering from dysentery. He would later be sent to hospital in

Dvr Leo Maxwell (Wandin), 1st Field Artillery Brigade: While in England for medical treatment, he applies to be transferred from the AIF to the Royal Field Artillery where he is promised a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant. His application is approved.

Cpl Reg Peisley (Lilydale), 3rd Field Company Engineers: Is wounded in action, injury to back and shellshock, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Trp Stanley Mounsey (Seville), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Star of England. Frederick Brierty (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a drover and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, is he 40 years old and married.

Pte Richard Hand (Lilydale): While stationed at Broadmeadows Military Camp, he is admitted to the Alfred Hospital suffering from meningitis. Henry Cornwall (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. This is his second attempt; the first time he was rejected on account of a bone disease he’d had for a time.

Pte Fred Whiteside (Lilydale), 14th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Malta suffering from jaundice.

Pte Reg Charteris (Wandin), 23rd Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Hororata. Pte Thomas Harvey (Lilydale), 23rd Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Hororata. Pte Arthur Overton (Wandin), 23rd Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Hororata. Thomas Senior (Seville): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 41 years old and married with children.

Pte Harry Linacre (Seville), 24th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Pte Harry Dawson (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Osterley: Lt Harold Bartram (Olinda), 5th Battalion Pte William Bedford (Lilydale), 5th Battalion Pte Percy Barratt (Olinda), 6th Battalion Pte Henry Tudor (Lilydale),

Cpl Stanley Nicholas (Lilydale), 5th Light Horse Regiment: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Malta suffering from dysentery. He had also broken he’d artificial teeth trying to eat the biscuits issued at Anzac Cove. Pte Harry Black (Coldstream), 8th Australian Machine Gun Battalion: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to his family at Coldstream –‘After many weeks of hard training in Egypt I am at last in the trenches

Pte James Reade (Yering), 24th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital on Anzac Cove feeling unwell. Robert Smith (Mt Evelyn): Leaves his job as a road engineer and enlists in the AIF, he is 40 years old and a widower.

Pte Frank Foster (Montrose), 24th Battalion: Is wounded in action, gunshot wounds to the buttocks and sacrum, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove. Pte John Irwin (Mooroolbark), 17th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove and sent to hospital in Malta suffering from influenza.

Pte Arthur Thomas (Lilydale), 1st Machine Gun Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Europe on the HMAT Themistocles. Arthur Cheep (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a cook and enlists in the AIF, he is 23 years old.

Pte Horace Twiner (Mt Dandenong), 7th Battalion: Is made the Battalion Driver and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to serve in Egypt.

Robert Jeeves (Montrose): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he 22 years old. His older brother Fredrick would follow him and enlist also in a few months’ time.

Sgt Frank Kingsley-Norris (Lilydale), 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance: Arrives back in Australia from Egypt. He was part of a group of medical students who had enlisted but were then ordered back to Australia to complete their medical studies. He later went on to serve in the Second World War and rose to become the Director of the Australian Medical Services as well as being awarded a knighthood and made

Pte Frank Foster (Montrose), 24th Battalion: Dies on the hospital ship ‘Assay’ off the coast of Gallipoli from wounds he’d received in action a few days before. He is 24 years old and is buried at the Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: Is sent to a Casualty Clearing Station at Anzac Cove suffering from shell shock. Pte Henry Warwick (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Is

Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove and sent to hospital in Malta suffering from diarrhoea.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Nestor: Pte James Wallace (Seville), 6th Battalion Pte James Clegg (Wandin), 6th Battalion Pte William McCallum (Lilydale), 6th Battalion Pte Alan McGuiness (Lilydale), 6th Battalion Pte Eddie Poyner (Lilydale), 6th Battalion Pte Frank Poyner (Lilydale), 6th Battalion Pte Edmund Rossiter (Silvan), 6th Battalion Pte Phillip Lithgow (Lilydale), 7th Battalion Pte Gordon Ewart (Montrose), 8th Battalion Pte Sydney Shore (Mooroolbark), 8th

Dvr Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division – attached to 17th Divisional Supply Column, British Expeditionary Forces: In France. In a letter to a friend in Lilydale – ‘We have been hard at it since we first arrived, but for the last few days have been having it a bit easy. I am a few miles at the rear of the trenches. Our usual routine for several weeks past has

Gnr Alfred Eades (Montrose), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Lands at Anzac Cove and reports for duty. Pte James Fraser (Yering), 23rd Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Egypt for further medical treatment for his kidney stones. Pte Isaac Davies (Kilsyth), 28th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Themistocles. Frederick Hopkins (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a mechanic and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old.

Sgt-Maj Kavan Lawlor (Coldstream), 8th Light Horse Regiment: At Anzac Cove. In a letter to friends in Lilydale – ‘I have been here five weeks now, and am still in good going order. The weather is getting very cold here and some of the boys who have been here for five months are becoming a ‘groggy-lo king’ on it, though I hear that they are to have a spell off

Norm Reid (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a motor mechanic and enlists in the AIF, he is 24 years old and married with two children. One local story has it, that Dr Syme, the local doctor, arranged to donate his motor ambulance to be used by the Defence Department overseas on the condition that Norm, his chauffeur, accompanies it as driver and mechanic.

Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: At St David’s Hospital on Malta. In a letter written to his brother George –‘I guess you will be surprised to know I am here: tried to hang out but it was no ‘go’. I was three days on the hospital ship coming over, and a good many of the boys died on board, in fact the ship was continually stopping for a

Benjamin Sessions (Silvan): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 22 years old. His younger brother Leslie had already enlisted two months before.

Pte Joseph Speakman (Coldstream), 14th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Barney Gilson (Lilydale): Enlists in the AIF for a second time, the first time he was discharged medically unfit due to a hernia. He has since had an operation.

Cpl Reginald Farndon (Mt Dandenong), 21st Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Malta suffering from influenza. Pte Alfred Sutherland (Wandin), 22nd Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Spr Michael McCristal (Lilydale), 3rd Light Horse: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Sgt Harold Manders (Wandin), & Pte George Joy (Mt Evelyn), both 24th Battalion: Are

Pte Herbert Read (Seville), 6th Battalion:  Wounded in the eye and ear at Krithia, he was eventually evacuated to a hospital in England. In a letter to his father Charles, later published in the Lilydale Express, he states –‘I have practically lost the sight of my left eye, but that doesn’t matter, as it is all in the game. I have been examined by two specialists and a doctor, and

Cpl Arthur Chapman (Wandin), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Malta suffering from diphtheria. Pte Charles Cooper (Wandin), 24th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Ascanius. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Ulysses: Pte Andrew Holland (Yering), 7th Battalion Pte George Deacon (Lilydale), 22nd Battalion Pte George Evans (Mt Evelyn), 22nd Battalion Pte Robert King (Lilydale),

Trp George Gilbert (Yering), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the SS Hawkes Bay.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Palermo: Trp Harry Dinsdale (Olinda), 4th Light Horse Regiment Trp Bert Hutchinson (Lilydale), 4th Light Horse Regiment Trp John Taylor (Olinda), 4th Light Horse Regiment Dvr Stanley Scott (Mt Evelyn), Motor Transport Corps Pte Charles Fraser (Yering): Is discharged from the AIF while at Seymour Military Camp for being medically unfit. He was diagnosed with cardiac debility.

Pte Norman Avard (Olinda), 6th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches.

Samuel Fennell (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a miner in Kalgoorlie, WA, where he is living, and enlists in the AIF, he is 33 years old and married with three children.

Pte Frederick Randolph (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Pte Henry Maidment (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is landed at Anzac Cove and reports for duty with the railway section.

Pte Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division: Is evacuated from the field to hospital in France with a minor wound to his scalp.

L/Cpl Walter Summers (Seville), 23rd Battalion: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wound to the throat, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove and sent to hospital on Malta. Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: Reports to a Casualty Clearing Station on Anzac Cove suffering from jaundice. Pte James Fraser (Yering), 23rd Battalion: Having returned home from Egypt suffering from kidney stones, he was travelling by train from Lilydale to attend

Cpl Walter Henry Clegg (Wandin), 11th Battalion: Is wounded in action and is evacuated from Anzac Cove and to a hospital on Mudros Island. Pte Alfred Parish (Lilydale), 13th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in England suffering from enteric fever. Pte Leslie Jack (Seville), 21st Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering gastro.

Sapper Henry Woodruff (Seville), 2nd Field Company Engineers: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Beltana. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Wandilla: Pte Archie Kilfoyle (Mooroolbark), 31st Battalion Pte Stanley Robinson (Lilydale), 31st Battalion Pte Mort Tait (Lilydale), 31st Battalion Pte Cliff Wardell (Lilydale), 31st Battalion Pte Wilfred Yeaman (Montrose), 31st Battalion Cyril Crameri (Montrose): Leaves his job as a motor mechanic and enlists in

Pte Joseph Speakman (Coldstream), 14th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Egypt suffering from the mumps. Cpl Walter Henry Clegg (Wandin), 11th Battalion: Arrives back at Anzac Cove to re-join his unit after having his wounds dressed on Mudros Island. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Ascanius: Sgt Leslie Bolitho (Lilydale), 29th Battalion Pte Ernest Bolitho (Lilydale), 29th Battalion Sgt Charles McComas (Montrose), 29th Battalion

Pte Clyde Richardson (Lilydale), 23rd Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Pte George Vale (Lilydale), 8th Field Ambulance: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Egypt suffering from the gastro. Pte Gordon Ewart (Montrose), 8th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from mumps. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on board the HMAT Orsova: Pte James Donleavey (Gruyere), 1st Remount

Pte Bruce Timms (Yering), 14th Battalion: Lands at Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches. Pte Richard Hand (Lilydale): Dies in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, from meningitis. He is 28 years old and is buried at the Coburg Cemetery. William Mattingley (Wandin): Leaves his job as a grocer in Warburton and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 19 years old. His older brother Arthur

Private Edwin Meade (Mooroolbark), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Malta suffering from enteric fever.

Pte Harry Boxall (Silvan), 23rd Battalion: Is injured in action, dust in eyes and shock from shell blast, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Sgt Charles Stanbury (Lilydale), 8th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HT Clan McCourquodale.

Pte Henry Maidment (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wounds to his thigh, and is evacuated to hospital in Egypt. Pte Fred Town (Lilydale), 2nd Division Ammunition Column: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Port Macquarie. Norman Stewart (Wandin): Having already been discharged as being medically unfit for contracting malaria while on active service in Samoa, he recovers and re-enlists once more in the

Gnr Howard Guttmann (Olinda), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering from influenza. Gnr Frederick Bartholomew (Kilsyth), 4th Field Artillery Brigade: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Wiltshire. Pte Frank Dixon (Wandin) & Pte Alfred Fairbank (Montrose), both 7th Battalion: While waiting with their unit to be landed at Anzac Cove, they are admitted to hospital on Mudros Island suffering from mumps.

Pte Leslie Tegart (Montrose), 31st Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Wandilla. Pte Duncan Campbell (Wandin), 5th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on board the HT Suevic. He is to be discharged as medically unfit after being wounded on Gallipoli. Pte John Mounsey (Seville), Remount Unit: Is discharged from the military for a second time, on this occasion he was deemed ‘unlikely to become an efficient

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Commonwealth: Pte George Allen (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte William Chauvin (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte Thomas Goodall (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte William Goodall (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte Ralph Noden (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte William Town (Lilydale), 24th Battalion

Spr William Guillerme (Lilydale), 5th Field Company Engineers: While still stationed at Ascot Vale, he is discharged from the AIF as medically unfit as a result of his poor eyesight.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Persic: Dvr Edmund Boulter (Olinda), 6th Field Artillery Brigade Pte Reginald Summers (Seville), 6th Field Artillery Brigade

Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: Is wounded in action at Dawkin Point, Anzac Cove, severe gunshot wound to the shoulder, and is evacuated from the front line and sent to hospital on Malta. Letter written to his parents while in hospital in Malta – ‘I was wounded on 23rd November, 1915… The bullet that hit me was a chance one, as I was not in a suitable position.

Pte Herbert Meade (Mooroolbark), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Malta suffering from eyetitis.

Sgt Harold Clark (Gruyere), 27th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Malta suffering from jaundice. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Commonwealth: Pte William Marshall (Wandin), 23rd Battalion Pte Clarence Windsor (Lilydale), 23rd Battalion Pte Ralph Garth (Wandin), 24th Battalion Pte Henry Hogan (Olinda), 24th Battalion Pte John Medhurst (Gruyere), 24th Battalion Pte Thomas Morton (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte William Walker (Montrose),

Pte Stan Smith (Lilydale), Australian Army Service Corps – Bakery Section: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Suffolk.

Pte Norman Avard (Olinda), 6th Battalion: Reports to a Casualty Clearing Station on Anzac Cove suffering from jaundice and is evacuated to hospital in Egypt.

Pte Frederick Randolph (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wound to the left leg, and is evacuated to hospital in Egypt. Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: In hospital on Malta. Letter written to his parents– ‘…I am lying on my back with a lung pierced at the top, a hardly noticeable wound on my back, and a wound on the top of the left

Pte Harry McCormack (Wandin), 6th Battalion: Is charged with defecating in a storm water course on Anzac Cove, thereby committing a nuisance and endangering the health of the army. He is fined four days pay. Percy Hyne (Lilydale): Leaves his job as an engine driver and enlists in the AIF, he is 38 years old. Richard Moloney (Lilydale): Leaves his job as labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is

Robert Davies (Kilsyth): Leaves his family’s orchard at Kilsyth and enlists in the AIF, he is 25 years old and this is his second attempt, he was previously rejected on account of his teeth. Three of his brothers have already enlisted. Leslie Howard (Olinda): Leaves his job as a jockey and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 19 years old.

Pte Charles Osborne (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Is wounded in action, gunshot wound to pelvis, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Cpl Rupert Bloom (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Egypt on the HT Karoola for further treatment for enteric fever.

Cpl George Ingram (Seville), Tropical Force: Leaves Rabaul bound for Australia on the SS Te Anui. He has spent the past month in hospital on Rabaul suffering from malaria and is being sent back to Australia for further treatment.

Pte George Hannah (Mt Evelyn), 7th Battalion: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved into the frontline trenches.

Cpl Ernest Kerslake (Lilydale), 26th Battalion: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved into the frontline trenches.

Dvr Ernest Dutton (Wandin), 1st Divisional Ammunition Column: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Barambah. Pte Henry Cornwall (Lilydale): While still at Broadmeadows he is discharged from the AIF as being medically unfit as a result of an old injury to his leg from a long term bone disease.

Pte Thomas Eales (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: Is evacuated from the peninsula to hospital in Egypt suffering from frost bite to the hands and feet as well as contracting jaundice. Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: On Anzac Cove. From his diary –‘We go into Lone Pine trenches with 24th Battalion until Dec 11, the regiment is then shifted to Thompsons Lookout trenches’. Dvr Frederick Hopkins (Lilydale), 2nd Field

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his diary –‘Something big on, if we only knew what it is. 5th and 6th Battalion, 4th Light Horse, 7th Brigade all arrived here today, everyone with the same idea that we are going to give up Anzac. Just fancy it, will break our hearts after all we’re done there, to give it back before we’ve finished. But we

Pte George Milne (Lilydale), 6th Battalion: In camp in Egypt. In a letter to his mother in Lilydale –‘Our trip across was made in record time, and one could liken it to a trip down the Bay, and, of course, the size of ship no doubt contributed to the steadiness, and for the first time in my sea travelling did the voyage without seasickness. This is not such an out

David England (Silvan): Leaves his job as a mail coach driver for his father’s coach business and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. Benjamin Gibson (Kilsyth): Leaves his job as a postman and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. His brother Joseph would also enlist the following year.

Dvr Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division – attached to 17th Divisional Supply Column, British Expeditionary Forces: In France. In a letter to Alec Williamson in Lilydale – ‘There is not the fierce excitement in the war game that I expected, in fact, it is might monotonous. I think the same can be said with all ranks out here, but more so with transport work, as we don’t get the excitement

Spr Henry Kings (Wandin), 5th Field Company Engineers: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Berrima.

Pte Levi Trayford (Lilydale), 24th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Mudros Island suffering from frost bite. Pte Richard Moloney (Lilydale), 24th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Warilda.

Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: On Anzac Cove. From his diary –‘We help to load the mines that were put in that sector till the evacuation. We are marched down to the pier, this time to go off on a lighter again and towed out to a vessel, the Mars, an old cruiser, then taken to Lemnos Island’. Pte Lindsay Yeaman (Montrose), 20th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his diary –‘At 4am this morning the last of our boys left Anzac. What a wonderful piece of work something like forty thousand Australians and New Zealanders have left Anzac and are safely here, without losing a man. Evidently the Turks know nothing about it, what a shock they will get when they find nobody in our trenches’. Pte

Sgt John Casson (Kilsyth), Army Veterinary Corps: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Bakara.

Pte Alfred Parish (Lilydale), 13th Battalion: Is sent from Egypt to hospital in England suffering from enteric fever.

Pte William Williams (Lilydale): While still stationed in Australia he is discharged as medically unfit as a result of contracting rheumatism.

Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: While at the Cottonera Hospital in Malta he dies of wounds he received at Gallipoli as well as complications with pneumonia. He is 22 years old and is buried at the Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Pte Albert Rouget (Seville), 14th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in Cairo suffering from mumps. Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his