Sgt Charles Cooper (Wandin), 24^th Battalion: Is awarded the Military Medal for his actions on this and the following day. His recommendation states: ‘For his gallantry and determination in command of a working party on 23rd/24th August, 1916, at Mouquet Farm. The ground between 0.1 and 91 was well lit by enemy flares and half the party were casualties from the enemy shell fire. Sgt Cooper withdrew his men to cover and completed the sap himself under continuous fire’.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance: In France. In his diary – ‘When we arrived in this part about a month ago there were seventeen of us from Lilydale in the 2^nd Brigade, we march out today, not seventeen but two of us, myself and as far as I know George Milne. All the rest are killed, wounded or missing, such is war, Tom Morton is missing, Ed Poyner killed, Frank Poyner wounded, Bill Bedford wounded’.