Alfred Niblett (Lilydale): When the war begins he is 29 years old and living and working in Lilydale, he had arrived from England just two years earlier. Being on the Imperial Army Reservist list he reports for duty at the British Consulate in Melbourne on this day and is accepted. He would soon be sent for training alongside the AIF at Broadmeadows, and then sail for England with the first convoy to serve with the Royal Field Artillery.