Pte Frederick Jeeves (Montrose), 6^th Field Company Engineers: Is killed in action during an artillery barrage, he is 30 years old and is buried at the Villers-Bretonneaux Military Cemetery in France. As a tribute, his wife and daughters placed the following few lines in the newspaper:

‘The German shrapnel did but kill,
The body, not thy spirit fine,
That liveth still to work its will,
Within thy country’s heart and mind’.

Pte Edward Gray (Seville), 37^th Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe on the HT Essex to be discharged as medically unfit.

Pte Frank Muirson (Lilydale), 50^th Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe on the HT Essex to be discharged for being underage.

Pte Arthur Cheep (Lilydale), 5^th Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe on the HT Essex to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of defective eyesight.