Gnr Theodore Lowe (Gruyere), 11^th Field Artillery Brigade: Is wounded in action, gunshot wound to right hand and thumb, and is evacuated to hospital in Belgium.

Trp Bert Hutchinson (Lilydale), 4^th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Palestine. In a letter to his future wife, Jessie Mackenzie of Yalca, Vic – ‘I have been very fortunate and have not been sick since I arrived in this land, also I have always managed to keep my condition. This place is alright while you are healthy but malaria is a common complaint, and, when you once get this complaint you never enjoy good health during the warm months. One of my mates suffers from this disease and he is bad during the afternoon and well again by tea time. Of course some chaps are much worse than this.

Just at present we are camped by the beautiful Mediterranean Sea and so we are having a splendid time. I go down swimming every evening and sometimes during the day. We often swim the horses in the morning. The boys in France suffer more than we do. I shall do my best to take care of myself and dodge the bullets’.