Gnr Percy Hyne(Lilydale), 8^th Field Artillery Battery: In a letter to his Mother – ‘The first place there that we went into action was Zonnebeke, where we stayed over a week’.

Cpl Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance: In the field in France. In his diary – ‘All out again, short and sweet but we’ve done great, gave old Fritz another taste of Australia’.

Cpl Rupert Bloom (Lilydale), 21^st Battalion: Is killed in action. He is 24 years old and is remember on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

Pte Vivian Grenness (Kilsyth), 6^th Battalion: Is wounded in action, gunshot wound to his right leg, and is evacuated from the field to hospital in England.

Pte Thomas Mackay (Lilydale), Anzac Provost Corps: While stationed in Cape Town, South Africa with the Australian Provost Corps, he is sent to the British Colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa to serve here for a couple of months. He later returns to Cape Town.