Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In a letter to his mother –‘Wonderful to relate we never lost a man while we were landing. I wish I could say the same now. The casualties in our own corps have been heavy, I can’t tell you the number, I’m not allowed, but I have lost some of my best pals, the last one a few evenings ago. He was in my squad and had been up at the trenches all day, having brought men down under heavy shell fire and not one of us was touched. We were relieved at 7pm and about 7.30pm we were sitting outside the dug-out cooking our tea when a shell burst right on top of us and a bullet from it got my mate in the head. He died a few hours afterwards, nobody else was touched. Now all the boys in my tent at Broadmeadows are hurt’.
Trp Iver Hamilton (Mt Evelyn), 8th Light Horse Regiment: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital in England suffering from diarrhoea.
Alfred Blanksby (Wandin): Leaves his family’s property at Wandin North to enlist in the AIF, he is 23 years old.
Ted Duncan (Lilydale): Leaving behind his role as the proprietor of the Lilydale Hotel in the hands of his wife, he enlists in the AIF, he is 38 years old and married with four children. In his younger years he had pursued gold in the wilds of New Guinea and in the Yukon in Canada. He had also served in the Anglo-Boer with the 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen’s Contingent and was awarded a medal for distinguished service for his efforts in the Battle of Klerksdorp.
Henry Lord (Wandin): Leaves his family’s property at Wandin and enlists in the AIF, he is 23 years old.
Arthur Orenshaw (Seville): Leaves his family’s property in Seville to enlist in the AIF, he is 22 years old.