Pte Charles Dorrington (Montrose), 3rd Pioneer Battalion: Is evacuated for a second time from the field to hospital in France suffering from scabies and dermatitis.
Dvr Thomas Smith (Lilydale), 13th Field Artillery Brigade: While in camp in England, is accidently shot in the thigh by another soldier who was cleaning their gun.
Geoffrey Berry (Seville): Leaves his family’s orchard at Seville and enlists in the AIF, he is 18 years old. His brother Guy had already enlisted the year before.
For many of the soldiers visiting England, it was an opportunity of meeting English girls and starting up a relationship.
Dvr Gus Gilbert (Yering), 8th Field Artillery Brigade: In an interview undertaken in 1994 – ‘I was in the army then and just where we were, everyone would go walking. This day these two girls were walking as well and they were going across the bridge but we didn’t see them’.
Gladys Gilbert (nee Stanton), Battersea, London, England: In an interview undertaken in 1994 – ‘We nearly collided with these two big Australians and they asked us out’.
They would marry the following year and Gladys would come to Australia as an English war bride. Many other local soldiers also married while on service in Europe and returned home with war brides.