Samuel Rouget (Wandin): At the age of 20 he leaves the family orchard in Wandin to enlist for a period of seven years in the Royal Australian Navy.

Ordinary Seaman Samuel Rouget (Wandin): After undergoing his initial training at Williamstown, Vic he is assigned to HMAS Warrego, a Torpedo boat based in Sydney Harbour.

Frank Larkins (Mt Evelyn): At the age of 14 he leaves the family home in East Melbourne to enlist for a period of twelve years in the Royal Australian Navy as a cadet. During his youth he was a regular visitor to Mt Evelyn where his parents owned a ‘weekender’ home.

Cadet Midshipman Frank Larkins (Mt Evelyn): He is one of twenty-eight Cadet Midshipmen in the first intake at the RAN College, Osborne House, Geelong to train to become a submarine officer. He is to become the first cadet Captain of the College.

Robert Croydon McComas (Montrose): At the age of 17 he leaves the family farm ‘Pine Hill’ in Montrose to enlist for a period of seven years in the Royal Australian Navy.

Nolan Footit (Gruyere): At the age of 18 he decides to enlist for a period of seven years in the Royal Australian Navy.

Ordinary Seaman Nolan Footit (Gruyere):After undergoing his initial training at HMAS Cerberus at Crib Point, Vic, he is assigned to HMAS Encounter, Australia’s first Cruiser, and over the coming months operates in waters around Australia.

Able Seaman Robert Croydon McComas (Montrose): After undergoing his initial training at HMAS Cerberus at Crib Point, Vic, he is assigned to HMAS Sydney, a Town Class Light Cruiser, one of three ordered from the UK to form the initial Australian Fleet unit. He joins the ship at Portsmouth, England just after it was commissioned and would be part of the crew to sail her back to Australia.

Ordinary Seaman Samuel Rouget (Wandin): He is transferred from HMAS Warrego to HMAS Melbourne, a Town Class Light Cruiser newly arrived from England.

On June 28th, 1914, the Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austrian province of Bosnia. It was the spark that would soon ignite the First World War. Zola Janson (Lilydale): Zola was the daughter of Edward Janson who owned ‘The Towers’ at Lilydale. At the time of the assassination in Sarajevo both she and her mother

James McClure (Yering): At the age of 19 he decides to enlist for a period of five years in the Royal Australian Navy.

Stoker James McClure (Yering): After undergoing his basic training at HMAS Cerberus he is transferred to HMAS Pioneer, a Pelrous Class Light Cruiser operating in Australian waters. Sr Alice Card (Olinda): She is serving as a nurse at the American Hospital of Paris when the Board of Governors at the hospital offer the hospital’s facilities to the French authorities to use as a neutral military hospital facility for wounded soldiers. She is