Pte Wilfred Palliser (Lilydale), 7^th Battalion: Marries an English girl in Northumberland, England. She later comes out to Australia as a war bride.

THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE

With the Russian revolution having happened back in October 1917 and the withdrawal of the Russian forces from the Eastern Front, the German High Command decided to move their troops to the Western Front and do an all-out attack before the American troops could arrive. Known as the Ludendorff offensive, they undertook a series of attacks on three separate fronts, pushing forward by raining down a storm of gas shells and high explosives ahead of their infantry.