Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2nd Field Artillery Brigade: On Anzac Cove. Letter written to his brother George from Gallipoli –‘Things are a bit quiet lately. The Turks asked for an armistice last week to enable them to bury their dead;there were thousands of them and the armistice lasted from 7.30 amto 4.30 pm. Our burial parties and theirs were talking and exchanging smokes. It was just like a holiday for the rest of us but things got busy again when the time expired. Although it has been quieter here this week there is more doing down at Cape Helles: we can see the fighting at night-time’.
Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On Anzac Cove. In his diary –‘Today we have had nine hours without a shot being fired from either side; both our men and the Turks are outside the trenches burying the dead, which must number thousands. About nine tenths are Turks, the stench is awful, these dead Turks have been lying, some of them only a few feet from our trenches, for five days. That was when they made a vicious attack but were horribly cut up. It is the first time for thirty days that we’ve known what it’s like not to hear bullets and shells whistling overhead, it seems like, well I can’t describe what it’s like to walk about and know you’re not likely to be shot’.
Pte Lance Matthews (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Is evacuated from Anzac Cove to hospital on Mudros Island suffering from influenza.
Pte Harry Moore (Lilydale), 26th Battalion: Leaves Australia bound for Egypt on board the HMAT Ascanius.
James Fraser (Yering): Leaves his family’s vineyard at Yering and enlists in the AIF, he is 29 years old.