Leo Maxwell (Wandin): Re-enlists in the AIF. He had previously enlisted in 1914 and had travelled to Egypt on the first convoy with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade. In June 1915 he was admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from gastritis and was then sent for further treatment to England. In September 1915, while in England, he successfully applied to be transferred to the Royal Field Artillery with a commission as 2nd Lieutenant. What exactly happened to him after that is a mystery but in February 1916 he married in London and soon after left his new wife and returned to Australia. Back here he married another woman, without having gotten a divorce from his deserted wife, and was soon after charged with bigamy, tried and sentenced to prison. Coming out of imprisonment he decided to re-enlist in the AIF but even this doesn’t end well.
Pte Robert Marshall (Mooroolbark), General Service Reinforcements: Leaves Australia for Egypt on board the HMAT Wiltshire.