Spr Robert Fairnie (Lilydale), Australian Army Pay Corps: Is admitted to hospital in England suffering from influenza.

Albert Round (Kilsyth): Leaves his job as a farm hand in the district and enlists in the AIF, he is 18 years old. His sister Doris Baldwin (nee Round) of Kilsyth, in an interview in 1994 – ‘A cousin of mine was working on my brother about going and joining up. Well in the end they both did join up and when it came to the medical the cousin was outed and my brother got taken, he was only 18. I remember he drove Mum mad to sign him to go and he went’.