Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Had a look at Lonesome Pine from Johnston’s Jolly today, think we’ve got old Abdul well stoushed there but reckon he holds us at Chess Board, German Officer’s Trench & Quinn’s Post. The Turk’s trenches are beautifully made, are practically safe from shrapnel. In the Lonesome Pine trenches what a sight at daylight, the dead lying four deep, about three to one of ours. The Turks have been burying their dead in their trenches and it’s like walking on a spring mattress in some parts here. The trenches are only three yards apart, they can’t fire rifles at each other so they throw bombs, rotten things these hand bombs, made of nails, slugs, stones put in a jam tin with a stick of dynamite and a fuse, light the fuse and throw it over. They make a horrific mess of a chap, practically plug him full of holes’.
Leslie Bolitho (Yering): Leaves his job as a bank clerk and enlists in the AIF, he is 23 years old and married.
Cecil Watson (Olinda): Leaves his job as a farm hand in the Horsham area and enlists in the AIF, he is 20 years old.