The following local soldiers leave Australia bound for Europe on the HMAT Medic-
Dvr Henry Early (Lilydale), 8th Field Artillery Brigade
Dvr Gus Gilbert (Yering), 8th Field Artillery Brigade
Dvr Ernest Gilbert (Yering), 8th Field Artillery Brigade
Dvr Hubert Guiney (Yering), 8th Field Artillery Brigade
Dvr Percy Hyne (Lilydale), 8th Field Artillery Brigade: In a postcard to Kath Phillips, Lilydale – ‘We have been seven weeks and a day out and have just left these islands for finals run to England. I don’t know who it was who gave me the electric torches but I wish you would thank him for me and tell them that they are very handy, very much so after lights out on board the ship’.