Pte David Briers (Lilydale), 38^th Battalion: Dies while a patient at the 3^rd Australia General Hospital in France of influenza. He is 28 years old and is buried at the Abbeville Communal Cemetery in France. Sadly, he never got to see his son Stanley who had been born the year before.

Stoker George Cummings (Kilsyth), HMAS Encounter: Is part of the crew when the ship is despatched to Fiji and Samoa with medical stores following a severe outbreak of influenza among the local natives. This is Australia’s first overseas humanitarian assistance operation.