Pte Herbert Read (Seville), 6^th Battalion: In hospital on Malta. In a letter written to his sister Florence: ‘I am getting on well, I can see a little bit out of my left eye now and the treatment we get is lovely; it’s quite a good holiday to get away from the front. …I suppose by the time I get back home, nearly all the fighting will be done there… So when we get back, if I can’t afford to build a house to live in, I can build a trench and when I get married I can live in that’.

Francis Hughes (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a driver and enlists in the AIF, he is 26 years old.