Trp James Rushton (Lilydale), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Lands at Anzac Cove and is moved up to the frontline trenches. Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Lands at Anzac Cove and is moved up to the frontline trenches. From his diary (Gallipoli): ‘In the afternoon we leave Lemnos for the Anzacs. Towards midnight we hear for the first time war and see the gun boats using the searchlights

Pte David Lohman (Lilydale), 24th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering from dysentery. Hewitt Hussey (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a contractor and enlists in the AIF, he is 18 years old. Arthur Jeeves (Mt Dandenong): Leaves his job as a carpenter and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 26 years old.

Martin Hatfield (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a cab proprietor and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 48 years old but he tells the authorities he is 44. Arthur Stallworthy (Lilydale): Leaves his estate agent’s business and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 49 years old.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on SS Makarini: Pte Thomas Strachan (Lilydale), 5th Battalion Pte Alfred Blanksby (Wandin), 8th Battalion Pte Francis Hughes (Lilydale), 8th Battalion Pte Henry Lord (Wandin), 8th Battalion Pte David Ogilvy (Seville), 8th Battalion Pte John Purcell (Lilydale), 8th Battalion Pte Andrew Ragartz (Seville), 8th Battalion Pte Bruce Timms (Yering), 14th Battalion Pte Ernest Kerslake (Lilydale), 26th Battalion Pte Harry Moore (Lilydale), 26th

Trp Kavan Lawlor (Coldstream), 8th Light Horse Regiment: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches with his regiment, which has been decimated after the charge at the Nek the month before. Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his diary –‘Of the original one hundred and eight bearers who landed on the 25th of April, only thirty of us came

Cpl James Drummond Burns (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: He was in the front line at Courtney’s Post when the Turkish forces fired an artillery barrage upon their position. Private Robert Glenister later told a friend –‘There was a Turkish demonstration; Jimmy said ‘Don’t let them have their own way, boys’. He got up and fired four shots. ‘They’re shooting at me! They’re shooting at me!’ he said, and two shots later

Pte Richard Plummer (Olinda), 21st Battalion: Is wounded in action, bullet wound to the eye, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Pte Frederick Davies (Kilsyth), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove and eventually to hospital in England suffering from acute gastritis. Pte Harry Stevens (Seville), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Lemnos suffering from dysentery. He would later be sent to hospital in

Dvr Leo Maxwell (Wandin), 1st Field Artillery Brigade: While in England for medical treatment, he applies to be transferred from the AIF to the Royal Field Artillery where he is promised a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant. His application is approved.

Cpl Reg Peisley (Lilydale), 3rd Field Company Engineers: Is wounded in action, injury to back and shellshock, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Trp Stanley Mounsey (Seville), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Star of England. Frederick Brierty (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a drover and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, is he 40 years old and married.

Pte Richard Hand (Lilydale): While stationed at Broadmeadows Military Camp, he is admitted to the Alfred Hospital suffering from meningitis. Henry Cornwall (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. This is his second attempt; the first time he was rejected on account of a bone disease he’d had for a time.

Pte Fred Whiteside (Lilydale), 14th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Malta suffering from jaundice.

Pte Reg Charteris (Wandin), 23rd Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Hororata. Pte Thomas Harvey (Lilydale), 23rd Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Hororata. Pte Arthur Overton (Wandin), 23rd Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Hororata. Thomas Senior (Seville): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 41 years old and married with children.

Pte Harry Linacre (Seville), 24th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Pte Harry Dawson (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Osterley: Lt Harold Bartram (Olinda), 5th Battalion Pte William Bedford (Lilydale), 5th Battalion Pte Percy Barratt (Olinda), 6th Battalion Pte Henry Tudor (Lilydale),

Cpl Stanley Nicholas (Lilydale), 5th Light Horse Regiment: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Malta suffering from dysentery. He had also broken he’d artificial teeth trying to eat the biscuits issued at Anzac Cove. Pte Harry Black (Coldstream), 8th Australian Machine Gun Battalion: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to his family at Coldstream –‘After many weeks of hard training in Egypt I am at last in the trenches

Pte James Reade (Yering), 24th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital on Anzac Cove feeling unwell. Robert Smith (Mt Evelyn): Leaves his job as a road engineer and enlists in the AIF, he is 40 years old and a widower.

Pte Frank Foster (Montrose), 24th Battalion: Is wounded in action, gunshot wounds to the buttocks and sacrum, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove. Pte John Irwin (Mooroolbark), 17th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove and sent to hospital in Malta suffering from influenza.

Pte Arthur Thomas (Lilydale), 1st Machine Gun Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Europe on the HMAT Themistocles. Arthur Cheep (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a cook and enlists in the AIF, he is 23 years old.

Pte Horace Twiner (Mt Dandenong), 7th Battalion: Is made the Battalion Driver and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to serve in Egypt.

Robert Jeeves (Montrose): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he 22 years old. His older brother Fredrick would follow him and enlist also in a few months’ time.

Sgt Frank Kingsley-Norris (Lilydale), 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance: Arrives back in Australia from Egypt. He was part of a group of medical students who had enlisted but were then ordered back to Australia to complete their medical studies. He later went on to serve in the Second World War and rose to become the Director of the Australian Medical Services as well as being awarded a knighthood and made

Pte Frank Foster (Montrose), 24th Battalion: Dies on the hospital ship ‘Assay’ off the coast of Gallipoli from wounds he’d received in action a few days before. He is 24 years old and is buried at the Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: Is sent to a Casualty Clearing Station at Anzac Cove suffering from shell shock. Pte Henry Warwick (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Is

Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove and sent to hospital in Malta suffering from diarrhoea.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Nestor: Pte James Wallace (Seville), 6th Battalion Pte James Clegg (Wandin), 6th Battalion Pte William McCallum (Lilydale), 6th Battalion Pte Alan McGuiness (Lilydale), 6th Battalion Pte Eddie Poyner (Lilydale), 6th Battalion Pte Frank Poyner (Lilydale), 6th Battalion Pte Edmund Rossiter (Silvan), 6th Battalion Pte Phillip Lithgow (Lilydale), 7th Battalion Pte Gordon Ewart (Montrose), 8th Battalion Pte Sydney Shore (Mooroolbark), 8th

Dvr Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division – attached to 17th Divisional Supply Column, British Expeditionary Forces: In France. In a letter to a friend in Lilydale – ‘We have been hard at it since we first arrived, but for the last few days have been having it a bit easy. I am a few miles at the rear of the trenches. Our usual routine for several weeks past has

Gnr Alfred Eades (Montrose), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Lands at Anzac Cove and reports for duty. Pte James Fraser (Yering), 23rd Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Egypt for further medical treatment for his kidney stones. Pte Isaac Davies (Kilsyth), 28th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Themistocles. Frederick Hopkins (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a mechanic and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old.

Sgt-Maj Kavan Lawlor (Coldstream), 8th Light Horse Regiment: At Anzac Cove. In a letter to friends in Lilydale – ‘I have been here five weeks now, and am still in good going order. The weather is getting very cold here and some of the boys who have been here for five months are becoming a ‘groggy-lo king’ on it, though I hear that they are to have a spell off

Norm Reid (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a motor mechanic and enlists in the AIF, he is 24 years old and married with two children. One local story has it, that Dr Syme, the local doctor, arranged to donate his motor ambulance to be used by the Defence Department overseas on the condition that Norm, his chauffeur, accompanies it as driver and mechanic.

Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: At St David’s Hospital on Malta. In a letter written to his brother George –‘I guess you will be surprised to know I am here: tried to hang out but it was no ‘go’. I was three days on the hospital ship coming over, and a good many of the boys died on board, in fact the ship was continually stopping for a

Benjamin Sessions (Silvan): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 22 years old. His younger brother Leslie had already enlisted two months before.

Pte Joseph Speakman (Coldstream), 14th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Barney Gilson (Lilydale): Enlists in the AIF for a second time, the first time he was discharged medically unfit due to a hernia. He has since had an operation.

Cpl Reginald Farndon (Mt Dandenong), 21st Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Malta suffering from influenza. Pte Alfred Sutherland (Wandin), 22nd Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Spr Michael McCristal (Lilydale), 3rd Light Horse: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Sgt Harold Manders (Wandin), & Pte George Joy (Mt Evelyn), both 24th Battalion: Are

Pte Herbert Read (Seville), 6th Battalion:  Wounded in the eye and ear at Krithia, he was eventually evacuated to a hospital in England. In a letter to his father Charles, later published in the Lilydale Express, he states –‘I have practically lost the sight of my left eye, but that doesn’t matter, as it is all in the game. I have been examined by two specialists and a doctor, and

Cpl Arthur Chapman (Wandin), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Malta suffering from diphtheria. Pte Charles Cooper (Wandin), 24th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Ascanius. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Ulysses: Pte Andrew Holland (Yering), 7th Battalion Pte George Deacon (Lilydale), 22nd Battalion Pte George Evans (Mt Evelyn), 22nd Battalion Pte Robert King (Lilydale),

Trp George Gilbert (Yering), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the SS Hawkes Bay.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Palermo: Trp Harry Dinsdale (Olinda), 4th Light Horse Regiment Trp Bert Hutchinson (Lilydale), 4th Light Horse Regiment Trp John Taylor (Olinda), 4th Light Horse Regiment Dvr Stanley Scott (Mt Evelyn), Motor Transport Corps Pte Charles Fraser (Yering): Is discharged from the AIF while at Seymour Military Camp for being medically unfit. He was diagnosed with cardiac debility.

Pte Norman Avard (Olinda), 6th Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches.

Samuel Fennell (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a miner in Kalgoorlie, WA, where he is living, and enlists in the AIF, he is 33 years old and married with three children.

Pte Frederick Randolph (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Pte Henry Maidment (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is landed at Anzac Cove and reports for duty with the railway section.

Pte Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division: Is evacuated from the field to hospital in France with a minor wound to his scalp.

L/Cpl Walter Summers (Seville), 23rd Battalion: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wound to the throat, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove and sent to hospital on Malta. Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: Reports to a Casualty Clearing Station on Anzac Cove suffering from jaundice. Pte James Fraser (Yering), 23rd Battalion: Having returned home from Egypt suffering from kidney stones, he was travelling by train from Lilydale to attend

Cpl Walter Henry Clegg (Wandin), 11th Battalion: Is wounded in action and is evacuated from Anzac Cove and to a hospital on Mudros Island. Pte Alfred Parish (Lilydale), 13th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in England suffering from enteric fever. Pte Leslie Jack (Seville), 21st Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering gastro.

Sapper Henry Woodruff (Seville), 2nd Field Company Engineers: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Beltana. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Wandilla: Pte Archie Kilfoyle (Mooroolbark), 31st Battalion Pte Stanley Robinson (Lilydale), 31st Battalion Pte Mort Tait (Lilydale), 31st Battalion Pte Cliff Wardell (Lilydale), 31st Battalion Pte Wilfred Yeaman (Montrose), 31st Battalion Cyril Crameri (Montrose): Leaves his job as a motor mechanic and enlists in

Pte Joseph Speakman (Coldstream), 14th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Egypt suffering from the mumps. Cpl Walter Henry Clegg (Wandin), 11th Battalion: Arrives back at Anzac Cove to re-join his unit after having his wounds dressed on Mudros Island. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Ascanius: Sgt Leslie Bolitho (Lilydale), 29th Battalion Pte Ernest Bolitho (Lilydale), 29th Battalion Sgt Charles McComas (Montrose), 29th Battalion

Pte Clyde Richardson (Lilydale), 23rd Battalion: Is landed at Anzac Cove and moved up into the frontline trenches. Pte George Vale (Lilydale), 8th Field Ambulance: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Egypt suffering from the gastro. Pte Gordon Ewart (Montrose), 8th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from mumps. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on board the HMAT Orsova: Pte James Donleavey (Gruyere), 1st Remount

Pte Bruce Timms (Yering), 14th Battalion: Lands at Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches. Pte Richard Hand (Lilydale): Dies in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, from meningitis. He is 28 years old and is buried at the Coburg Cemetery. William Mattingley (Wandin): Leaves his job as a grocer in Warburton and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 19 years old. His older brother Arthur

Private Edwin Meade (Mooroolbark), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Malta suffering from enteric fever.

Pte Harry Boxall (Silvan), 23rd Battalion: Is injured in action, dust in eyes and shock from shell blast, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Sgt Charles Stanbury (Lilydale), 8th Light Horse Regiment: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HT Clan McCourquodale.

Pte Henry Maidment (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wounds to his thigh, and is evacuated to hospital in Egypt. Pte Fred Town (Lilydale), 2nd Division Ammunition Column: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Port Macquarie. Norman Stewart (Wandin): Having already been discharged as being medically unfit for contracting malaria while on active service in Samoa, he recovers and re-enlists once more in the

Gnr Howard Guttmann (Olinda), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt suffering from influenza. Gnr Frederick Bartholomew (Kilsyth), 4th Field Artillery Brigade: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Wiltshire. Pte Frank Dixon (Wandin) & Pte Alfred Fairbank (Montrose), both 7th Battalion: While waiting with their unit to be landed at Anzac Cove, they are admitted to hospital on Mudros Island suffering from mumps.

Pte Leslie Tegart (Montrose), 31st Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Wandilla. Pte Duncan Campbell (Wandin), 5th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on board the HT Suevic. He is to be discharged as medically unfit after being wounded on Gallipoli. Pte John Mounsey (Seville), Remount Unit: Is discharged from the military for a second time, on this occasion he was deemed ‘unlikely to become an efficient

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on HMAT Commonwealth: Pte George Allen (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte William Chauvin (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte Thomas Goodall (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte William Goodall (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte Ralph Noden (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte William Town (Lilydale), 24th Battalion

Spr William Guillerme (Lilydale), 5th Field Company Engineers: While still stationed at Ascot Vale, he is discharged from the AIF as medically unfit as a result of his poor eyesight.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Persic: Dvr Edmund Boulter (Olinda), 6th Field Artillery Brigade Pte Reginald Summers (Seville), 6th Field Artillery Brigade

Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: Is wounded in action at Dawkin Point, Anzac Cove, severe gunshot wound to the shoulder, and is evacuated from the front line and sent to hospital on Malta. Letter written to his parents while in hospital in Malta – ‘I was wounded on 23rd November, 1915… The bullet that hit me was a chance one, as I was not in a suitable position.

Pte Herbert Meade (Mooroolbark), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Malta suffering from eyetitis.

Sgt Harold Clark (Gruyere), 27th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Malta suffering from jaundice. The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Commonwealth: Pte William Marshall (Wandin), 23rd Battalion Pte Clarence Windsor (Lilydale), 23rd Battalion Pte Ralph Garth (Wandin), 24th Battalion Pte Henry Hogan (Olinda), 24th Battalion Pte John Medhurst (Gruyere), 24th Battalion Pte Thomas Morton (Lilydale), 24th Battalion Pte William Walker (Montrose),

Pte Stan Smith (Lilydale), Australian Army Service Corps – Bakery Section: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Suffolk.

Pte Norman Avard (Olinda), 6th Battalion: Reports to a Casualty Clearing Station on Anzac Cove suffering from jaundice and is evacuated to hospital in Egypt.

Pte Frederick Randolph (Lilydale), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wound to the left leg, and is evacuated to hospital in Egypt. Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: In hospital on Malta. Letter written to his parents– ‘…I am lying on my back with a lung pierced at the top, a hardly noticeable wound on my back, and a wound on the top of the left

Pte Harry McCormack (Wandin), 6th Battalion: Is charged with defecating in a storm water course on Anzac Cove, thereby committing a nuisance and endangering the health of the army. He is fined four days pay. Percy Hyne (Lilydale): Leaves his job as an engine driver and enlists in the AIF, he is 38 years old. Richard Moloney (Lilydale): Leaves his job as labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is

Robert Davies (Kilsyth): Leaves his family’s orchard at Kilsyth and enlists in the AIF, he is 25 years old and this is his second attempt, he was previously rejected on account of his teeth. Three of his brothers have already enlisted. Leslie Howard (Olinda): Leaves his job as a jockey and enlists in the Australian Light Horse, he is 19 years old.

Pte Charles Osborne (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Is wounded in action, gunshot wound to pelvis, and is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in Egypt. Cpl Rupert Bloom (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Egypt on the HT Karoola for further treatment for enteric fever.

Cpl George Ingram (Seville), Tropical Force: Leaves Rabaul bound for Australia on the SS Te Anui. He has spent the past month in hospital on Rabaul suffering from malaria and is being sent back to Australia for further treatment.

Pte George Hannah (Mt Evelyn), 7th Battalion: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved into the frontline trenches.

Cpl Ernest Kerslake (Lilydale), 26th Battalion: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved into the frontline trenches.

Dvr Ernest Dutton (Wandin), 1st Divisional Ammunition Column: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Barambah. Pte Henry Cornwall (Lilydale): While still at Broadmeadows he is discharged from the AIF as being medically unfit as a result of an old injury to his leg from a long term bone disease.

Pte Thomas Eales (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: Is evacuated from the peninsula to hospital in Egypt suffering from frost bite to the hands and feet as well as contracting jaundice. Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: On Anzac Cove. From his diary –‘We go into Lone Pine trenches with 24th Battalion until Dec 11, the regiment is then shifted to Thompsons Lookout trenches’. Dvr Frederick Hopkins (Lilydale), 2nd Field

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his diary –‘Something big on, if we only knew what it is. 5th and 6th Battalion, 4th Light Horse, 7th Brigade all arrived here today, everyone with the same idea that we are going to give up Anzac. Just fancy it, will break our hearts after all we’re done there, to give it back before we’ve finished. But we

Pte George Milne (Lilydale), 6th Battalion: In camp in Egypt. In a letter to his mother in Lilydale –‘Our trip across was made in record time, and one could liken it to a trip down the Bay, and, of course, the size of ship no doubt contributed to the steadiness, and for the first time in my sea travelling did the voyage without seasickness. This is not such an out

David England (Silvan): Leaves his job as a mail coach driver for his father’s coach business and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. Benjamin Gibson (Kilsyth): Leaves his job as a postman and enlists in the AIF, he is 21 years old. His brother Joseph would also enlist the following year.

Dvr Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division – attached to 17th Divisional Supply Column, British Expeditionary Forces: In France. In a letter to Alec Williamson in Lilydale – ‘There is not the fierce excitement in the war game that I expected, in fact, it is might monotonous. I think the same can be said with all ranks out here, but more so with transport work, as we don’t get the excitement

Spr Henry Kings (Wandin), 5th Field Company Engineers: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Berrima.

Pte Levi Trayford (Lilydale), 24th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to Mudros Island suffering from frost bite. Pte Richard Moloney (Lilydale), 24th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Warilda.

Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: On Anzac Cove. From his diary –‘We help to load the mines that were put in that sector till the evacuation. We are marched down to the pier, this time to go off on a lighter again and towed out to a vessel, the Mars, an old cruiser, then taken to Lemnos Island’. Pte Lindsay Yeaman (Montrose), 20th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his diary –‘At 4am this morning the last of our boys left Anzac. What a wonderful piece of work something like forty thousand Australians and New Zealanders have left Anzac and are safely here, without losing a man. Evidently the Turks know nothing about it, what a shock they will get when they find nobody in our trenches’. Pte

Sgt John Casson (Kilsyth), Army Veterinary Corps: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Bakara.

Pte Alfred Parish (Lilydale), 13th Battalion: Is sent from Egypt to hospital in England suffering from enteric fever.

Pte William Williams (Lilydale): While still stationed in Australia he is discharged as medically unfit as a result of contracting rheumatism.

Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6th Field Ambulance: While at the Cottonera Hospital in Malta he dies of wounds he received at Gallipoli as well as complications with pneumonia. He is 22 years old and is buried at the Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Pte Albert Rouget (Seville), 14th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in Cairo suffering from mumps. Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his

Percy Gartside (Kilsyth): On this day he decides to enlist in the AIF but this only begins a series of strange events where, over the next three years, he is discharged as medically unfit four times, then re-enlists under three different names and then deserts on a number of occasions, is on the run, imprisoned and escapes. Eventually in April 1918 the AIF send him to England but he spends

Pte George Milne (Lilydale), 6th Battalion: In camp in Egypt. In a letter to his mother in Lilydale – ‘Am fortunate in landing here at this time of year, on account of holidays, and have made full use of same in seeing all I could. Cairo is an eye-opener; a very mixed population; abounds with smells, mostly from their viands, which they have cooking in front of their shops, also

Pte Donald Fergus Scott (Mt Evelyn), 6th Battalion: In hospital in Egypt. In a letter to his father in Mt Evelyn – ‘You will be pleased to hear that although I am unfit for further active service in an infantry regiment, I have been transferred to the motor transport service for this hospital as motor mechanic. I have not been well lately but are alright now. The matron arranged for

Pte George Milne (Lilydale), 6th Battalion: In camp in Egypt. In a letter to his mother in Lilydale – ‘First mail from Australia in today, and everyone expectant, but few letters to hand, probably on account of a few days only separating mail from our departure. To-night, to keep men in camp, concert and ring contests are being held; and a glass of beer to each man. Tomorrow will be