Pte Andrew Noden (Lilydale), 12^th Field Artillery Brigade: Is evacuated from the field to hospital in England suffering from trench fever.

Sgt Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance: In hospital in France. In a letter to his mother – ‘Yes, for the first time in just on three and a half years I’m down to it. I told you in my last letter that I was not too well, I’ve been in this hospital five days and four days before they sent me here I was in bed with my unit so that’s ten days I’ve been in bed. I am down with Trench Fever, a new complaint manufactured in France, it’s a rotten thing, high temperature and awful pains in the legs and shins and you break out in cold sweats and shivers. I’m fed up with it and the Doctor told me this morning that I’ve got a few more days before he will let me up, but I don’t mind because it’s beastly weather out and I’m having a good rest. I’m feeling ever so much better, my temperature has gone down and the pains have left me, so I’m pretty comfortable. I’m in the 1^st Australian Casualty Clearing hospital, the sisters are angels the way they are always fussing round, makes one quite embarrassed, always wanting to do something for you. But I got into hot water this morning cos I sat up to write and the sister sang out ‘Sergeant lie down and cover yourself up, you’ll catch cold’.

Pte George Reid (Lilydale), Australian Flying Corps: Is attached to 4^th Squadron in France as an air mechanic.

Pte James Morrison x (Lilydale): While still at Broadmeadows Military Camp he is discharged from the AIF as medically unfit for having contracted a venereal disease.