Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to a friend in Lilydale – ‘We stopped in the trenches till Friday morning, 30^th, getting very little sleep, when we were relieved by the 9^th Battalion. We went back to the beach and dug like rabbits into a big hole in the side of the cliff. Then we had a bathe in the sea, with bullets falling too near to be pleasant, but were so worn out that a good sleep in the burrow was just the thing’.

Pte Leonard Giddins (Olinda), 7^th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove with his regiment and moved up into the front line trenches.