Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance: In camp in Egypt. In his diary –‘Arrived Tel-el-Kebir 4am, moved into camping ground and waited for daylight. What a kick in the pants for us, after a long nine months out of civilization we thought we’d get a spell in Cairo and here we are in the desert, ninety miles from Cairo, the nearest town is Ismailia, forty-five miles off. We’re between Cairo and the Suez Canal’.

Gnr Alfred Niblett (Lilydale), 19^th Battery, Royal Field Artillery: Arrives in Mesopotamia from France with an English force sent to assist the British garrison at Kut that is being besieged by the Turks.