Pte Herbert Read (Seville), 6th Battalion: Wounded in the eye and ear at Krithia, he was eventually evacuated to a hospital in England. In a letter to his father Charles, later published in the Lilydale Express, he states –‘I have practically lost the sight of my left eye, but that doesn’t matter, as it is all in the game. I have been examined by two specialists and a doctor, and have been recommended for discharge. The doctor asked me if I would take a job here if he could find me one so I am going to stop here on home service. I cannot speak too highly of the treatment I received at all the different places I have been at – Malta, Manchester, Holyhead and here, where I am working, at Woodcote Park, Epsom.
I have been for a fortnight’s furlough to Scotland, and visited Edinburgh, Glasgow and Forth Bridge, and the shipbuilding yards on the Clyde. I came to London for two days and stayed with an English General, who took me to see all the principle places. I managed to get into Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral and now at last I am back at work again’.