Pte Robert Shell (Lilydale), 21st Battalion: Is evacuated from the field to hospital in England suffering from trench feet.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Europe on the HMAT Medic-

Pte Herbert Hogg (Wandin), 14th Battalion

Pte Claude Pitt (Mt Evelyn), 37th Battalion

Pte Thomas Telson (Mt Evelyn), 37th Battalion

Pte Arthur Roger (Silvan), 39th Battalion

Pte Frank Tait (Mt Dandenong), 57th Battalion

Pte Edward Gray (Seville), 58th Battalion

Pte Ernest Le Page (Seville), 58th Battalion

Pte Edward Read (Seville), 58th Battalion

Pte Albert Parkes (Coldstream), 59th Battalion

Pte William Hunter (Wandin), 2nd Pioneer Battalion

Pte Thomas Brown (Olinda), 6th Machine Gun Company

Sig Guy Berry (Seville), 2nd Divisional Signal Company