Dvr Andrew Blythe (Mt Dandenong), 14th Field Artillery Brigade: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wounds to hand, and is evacuated to hospital in France.
Pte Norman Mounsey (Seville), 3rd Field Ambulance: Is awarded the Military Medal for his actions on this day. His recommendation states: ‘During the First Australian Divisional offensive on 10th August 1918 No 2689 Private Norman John Edwin Mounsey in company with No 2621 Lance Corporal H.N. McLeod, 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, was on duty as stretcher bearer in the forward area. Whilst passing a battery, a shell was noticed to explode in a gun pit killing one man and wounding four others, although the battery was under heavy shell fire, they went out into the open, dressed the wounded men and carried them to a place of comparative safety. Their courage and coolness have drawn upon them the admiration of their comrades’.
Trp Bert Hutchinson (Lilydale), 4th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Palestine. In a letter to his future wife, Jessie Mackenzie of Yalca, Vic – ‘Of course you received word in the last letter that I was having a rest in the Ordnance Depot. I’m supposed to be working but it is an easy life after the regiment. This is known as a ‘cold foots’ job but it will do me for a rest. My address will be just the same and I may re-join the regiment in about a months’ time. I think I will be tired of this job by then.
Our present camp is near the station and it is just a nice walk up to the gay city. Last night we went up to hear the band and to get a few little things. While we were at Jericho the weather was rather warm for comfort but here it is beautiful. Tonight I am going to a concert in the YMCA given by the American Red Cross. Did I mention that one of my mates is on the water going home? He had three brothers killed and the fourth was severely wounded. His mother will be pleased to meet him’.
Cliff Urch (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a foreman and enlists in the AIF, he is 31 years old and married with one child.