Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: At Anzac Cove. In his diary – ‘We went back to Anzac Cove again and into our old place at Steel’s Post trenches on the 19th. Here I had another narrow escape, a shrapnel shell burst over the trenches about 30 yards in front of me, and I got a knock on the head with a bit of the shell; it nearly put me to sleep and developed my bump of benevolence a good bit. The same night I was nearly buried alive with a high explosive shell’.
Arthur Anderson (Lilydale): Leaves his job at the Victorian Railways to enlist in the AIF, he is 19 years old.
William Houghton (Mooroolbark): Leaves his job as a farm worker in Mooroolbark to enlist in the AIF, he is 19 years old.
Frederick Bartholomew (Kilsyth): Leaves his job as an architect and enlists in the AIF, he is 30 years old.
Albert Ragartz (Seville): Born in Victoria to Swiss parents, he leaves his job as a farm worker in the Yarra Valley to enlist in the AIF, he is 31 years old.
Edgar Wilson (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a grocer to enlist in the AIF, he is 24 years old. He enlists on the same day as his younger brother Oswald.
Oswald Wilson (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a bank clerk to enlist in the AIF, he is 22 years old. This is his second attempt, he was originally rejected for being physically unfit but then took a course in physical culture in Melbourne and built up his strength and fitness.