The following local soldiers leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Euripides-

Pte Paul Clegg (Wandin), 5^th Battalion

Pte Thomas Gaudion (Wandin), 5^th Battalion

Pte John Marsh (Wandin), 5^th Battalion

Pte Thomas Payne (Seville), 5^th Battalion

Pte John Payne (Seville), 5^th Battalion

Pte Geoffrey Searle (Wandin), 14^th Battalion

Pte Malcolm Rankin (Lilydale), 21^st Battalion: In a letter to his uncle in Lilydale –‘Since I have left you all we have had a great trip round. We had a good trip over from Australia. We had only a couple of rough days on the whole voyage; that was after we passed the Heads. I was sea-sick the third day out for twenty-four hours. I missed only three meals’.

Pte Benjamin Gibson (Kilsyth), 23^rd Battalion

Pte Henry Rowney (Coldstream), 24^th Battalion

Pte Archibald McCully (Wandin), 58^th Battalion

Pte John Thomson (Mt Evelyn), 58^th Battalion

Pte Ern Morey (Lilydale), 2^nd Divisional Train