Pte Wilfred Yeaman (Montrose), 201st Battalion (British Army): Is in Arkhangel, Russia with the North Russian Relief Force fighting the Bolsheviks. In his diary he writes: ‘Newbould takes the gun position we were supposed to take and we take his. Score a razor, artillery sword and Bolo respirator out of a machine gun dug out. Go over to headquarters for water and on return take one of the packhorses back for a drink. Bolo shelling all along the railway line. I near run into a big galumph with the pony getting back to camp. Major May got a bullet through each thigh. Sgt Pearse was killed earlier in the day’. (Pearse was later posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on this day).
RSM George Deacon DCM, MSM x (Lilydale), 7th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on the HT Soudan.
The following local soldiers arrive back in Australia from Europe on the HT Persic:
Spr Edward Barratt (Olinda), 5th Field Company Engineers
L/Cpl Leonard Bunt (Wandin), 2nd Light Trench Mortar Battery
Pte William Hunter (Wandin), 2nd Pioneer Battalion
Sgt Harold Hunter MM (Wandin), Australian Signal Corps
Gnr Noel Cox-Taylor (Silvan), 6th Field Artillery Brigade