Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘A couple of nights ago, just about 5pm, two or three barrels were washed ashore. A crowd soon collected and many were the tips made after smelling them as to what they contained, some said beer, others vinegar, wine etc. They soon knocked a hole in the end and out poured wine (claret). The news spread like a bush fire – buckets, biscuit tins anything that would hold it. But a lot drank not wisely but too well, I never saw such a lot of drunks in my life, but all the same it was dead funny. The Turks opened fire with shrapnel on them while they were filling up their tins but not a man would move, shrapnel or no shrapnel, fortunately nobody was hit’.
Norman Avard (Olinda): Leaves his job as a labourer and enlists in the AIF, he is 20 years old.