L/Cpl Harold Wilkin (Wandin), 39th Battalion: Is evacuated from the field to hospital in France suffering from influenza.

ARMISTICE IS SIGNED IN MIDDLE EAST

Sgt Walter Bridgland (Olinda), No 2 Squadron, AFC: Is admitted to hospital in France suffering from influenza.

Cpl Frederick Bartholomew (Kilsyth), 4th Field Artillery Brigade: Is admitted to hospital in France suffering from influenza.

Pte Alex Duncan (Lilydale), 14th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in France suffering from influenza.

Shoeing Smith Henry Bamber (Coldstream), 13th Light Horse Regiment: Is admitted to hospital in England suffering from influenza.

Pte Frederick Miller (Coldstream), Army Medical Corps: Is admitted to the 1st United States of America General Hospital suffering from pleurisy. Frederick Stewart (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 18 years old. Pte Frederick Miller (Coldstream), Army Medical Corps: Is admitted to the 1st United States of America General Hospital suffering from pleurisy. Frederick Stewart (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a labourer

ARMISTICE IS SIGNED IN EUROPE Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13th Light Horse Regiment: From his diary (France): ‘While riding one morning, cold and wet, we were told by two staff officers that the armistice had been signed’.

Lt Alfred Eades (Montrose), 12th Field Artillery Brigade: While on leave in England he is struck down with influenza and admitted to hospital. He dies here, just a day after the Armistice was signed, he is 22 years old and is buried at the Brookwood Cemetery in England.

Pte Louis Cazaly (Montrose), 57th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in France with a septic leg from a wound he’d received in action the year before.

Spr Ernest Rae (Mooroolbark), 1st Divisional Signal Company: Arrives in Australia from Europe on board the HT Arawa, to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of developing sciatica while exposed to the wet and cold. Pte Sam Tucknott (Mt Evelyn), 22nd Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe on board the HT Arawa, to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of developing chronic bronchitis. Gnr Arthur Fenton

Pte Reg Charteris (Wandin), 23rd Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in France suffering from influenza.

Trp Bert Hutchinson (Lilydale), 4th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Tripoli. In a letter to his future wife, Jessie Mackenzie of Yalca, Vic – ‘Our present home is a few miles out of Tripoli on the side of a high hill and we get a splendid view of the surrounding country. In the valley there is a pretty village amongst the olive groves. Beyond the village there are large

Pte William Boyden (Wandin), 2nd Pioneer Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe on board the HT Suevic.

Pte William Walker (Montrose), 24th Battalion: Marries English girl Lora Hinds in Bath, England. She later returns to Australia as a war bride. The following local soldiers arrive in Australia from Europe on board the HT Devon: Sgt Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade Dvr Percy Whyte (Olinda), 10th Australian Army Service Corps Dvr Albert Bedbrook (Lilydale), Australian Army Service Corps

Pte David Briers (Lilydale), 38th Battalion: Dies while a patient at the 3rd Australia General Hospital in France of influenza. He is 28 years old and is buried at the Abbeville Communal Cemetery in France. Sadly, he never got to see his son Stanley who had been born the year before. Stoker George Cummings (Kilsyth), HMAS Encounter: Is part of the crew when the ship is despatched to Fiji and

Pte John Wilken (Kilsyth), 14th Battalion: Arrives in England after being repatriated from a German prisoner of war camp. He had been captured in 1917 during the Battle of Bapaume.

Gnr Howard Guttmann (Olinda), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: Marries an English girl in Surrey, England. She later comes out to Australia as a war bride. Sgt John Lucke (Montrose), 12th Field Artillery Brigade: Arrives in Australia from Europe on board the HT Runic. L/Cpl Herbert Meade x (Mooroolbark), 8th Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe on board the HT Runic for further treatment to wounds he’d received in action.

Sub Lieutenant Frank Larkins (Mt Evelyn): Is transferred to HMS Vampire, a V Class destroyer that was assigned to the 4th Destroyer Flotilla, and would be part of the crew on operations in the North Sea until March 1919.

Pte David Mitchell (Lilydale), 14th Battalion: Arrives in England after being repatriated from a German prisoner of war camp. He had been captured in 1917 during the Battle of Bullecourt. Pte Archibald Conner (Lilydale), 39th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in France suffering from influenza.

Pte Robert Jenkins (Gruyere), 24th Battalion: Dies of bronchi pneumonia while in hospital in France. He is 29 years old and buried at the Abbeville Communal Cemetery, France.

Pte Reuben Parry (Wandin), 29th Battalion: Arrives in England after being repatriated from a German prisoner of war camp. He had been captured in 1916 during the Battle of Fromelles. Pte Howard Vernon (Lilydale), 5th Battalion: Is sentenced to six months imprisonment by a civil court in England for obtaining two horses under false pretences. In May 1919 he is released from prison put straight on a boat to Australia

Pte Alfred Rothque (Lilydale), 58th Battalion: Is evacuated from the field to hospital in England suffering from bronchitis.

Gnr Archibald Arnott (Lilydale), 4th Battalion: Is admitted to hospital in France suffering from rheumatism and myalgia. Cpl Edward Hitchings (Lilydale), 22nd Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on board the HT Somali to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of wounds he’d received in action a few months before.

Tpr George Cassidy (Seville), 4th Light Horse Regiment: The following is a letter to his mother –‘Just a few more lines to let you know that everything is ‘quis-cateer’; in other words, ‘good-o’. The much longed for parcel, which you said you were sending, has not yet arrived, although some of the Christmas mail has already been received. And being pretty downhearted, I thought I would write a few lines

Pte Adolphus Black (Lilydale), Australian Railways Corps: While on the ship SS Boonah on his way to Europe he contracts influenza and is disembarked and sent to hospital at the Fremantle Quarantine Station at Woodmans Point. Sgt Richard Goodall x (Gruyere), 46th Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe on board the HT Saxon. He is to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of developing ‘effort syndrome’.

Pte Douglas Black (Mooroolbark), General Service Reinforcements: Dies from cerebra spinal fever in the 31st General Hospital in Abbassia in Egypt. This had developed as a result of the influenza he contracted on the ship over. He is 20 years old and is buried at the Cairo War Cemetery, Egypt. His older brother, Robert, had been killed in action in France in August. Harold Smith (Silvan): Leaves England to be

Trp George Gilbert (Yering), 9th Light Horse Regiment: Arrives at Port Said, Egypt, after being repatriated from a Turkish prisoner of war camp. Pte Edwin Meade (Mooroolbark), 8th Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe on the HT Borda for further treatment for wounds he’d received in action. Pte Charles Willimott (Lilydale), Mechanical Transport Division: Arrives in Australia from Europe on the HT Borda.

Pte Albert Parkes (Coldstream), 59th Battalion: Arrives in England after being repatriated from a German prisoner of war camp. He had been captured in 1917 during the Battle of Polygon Wood.

Pte Adolphus Black (Lilydale), Australian Railways Corps: Dies of influenza while at the hospital at the Fremantle Quarantine Station at Woodmans Point. He is 21 years old and is buried at the Perth War Cemetery in Western Australia. Dvr James Currie (Seville), Divisional Supply Column: Is discharged in London from the AIF for being medically unfit as a result of an injury to his foot in 1916. Pte David Laidlaw

Cpl Andrew Ragartz (Seville), 59th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on board the HT Mamari to be discharged as medically unfit due to a wound to his left leg. Sr Maud Hamilton (Mt Evelyn), Australian Army Nursing Service: Arrives back in Melbourne on the SS Wyreema after serving at the hospital set up at the Quarantine Station, Fremantle for a number of months.

Sister Dorothy Moroney (Lilydale), Australian Army Nursing Service: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on board the HT Leicestershire.

Private Arthur Newman (Yering), 5th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on board the HT Durham.

The following local soldiers arrive back in Australia from the Middle East on board the HT Port Darwin: Sgt Herbert Mackin (Lilydale), Australian Light Horse L/Cpl John Taggart MM (Wandin), 4th Light Horse Regiment Pte Walter Hoffman (Montrose), 5th Machine Gun Battalion The following local men stationed at Broadmeadows are discharged as a result of the demobilisation of the AIF. Pte Robert Badger (Mooroolbark) Pte Edmond Bamber (Gruyere) Pte George

Pte Adrian Camp (Wandin), 8th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on the HT Port Lyttleton.

Spr Robert Fairnie (Lilydale), Australian Army Pay Corps: Is admitted to hospital in England suffering from scarlet fever. Pte Charles Osborne x (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on the HT Sardinia to be discharged as medically unfit. Pte David Strachan (Lilydale), 60th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on the HT Sardinia to be discharged as medically unfit.

Lt Walter Summers MC (Seville), 23rd Battalion: Is accidentally killed while stationed at Charleroi, Belgium. A Court of Inquiry later stated: ‘Whilst working in a workshop of a Belgium civilian, de-detonating German nose caps, and after successfully completing one, he was carrying on with the second when suddenly it exploded. Killing him outright and wounding Private Miller and a Belgium civilian. He had severe laceration of left hand, left thigh

Pte James Varty (Mt Evelyn), 8th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on the HT Gaika to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of wounds he’d received in action. Pte Michael Griffin (Lilydale), 17th Battalion: Arrives back in Australia from Europe on the HT Gaika to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of contracting chronic rheumatism.