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 a horse driver and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 25 years old and married.