Pte Eddie Poyner (Lilydale), 6^th Battalion: In camp on the Somme, France. In a letter to his family – ‘Just a line or two to let you know we are keeping well, I always get pinched for fatigue or something when I start to write letters. Frank and I are still together, have not been separated yet. You will know before this that we are not in Egypt. I see there has been a battle on the sea, I think we got the best of it against such heavy odds don’t you? I suppose Melba is back again now, all the lads wish to be remembered to you all. Tom Goodall was nearly buried by a shell the other day but fortunately escaped injury. I believe he laughed fit to kill himself, he said he would have had to laugh if he had been killed, the way he got out’.