Pte Donald Fergus Scott (Mt Evelyn), 6th Battalion: In camp in Egypt. In a letter to his father in Mt Evelyn – ‘Cairo has greatly improved in character and is losing its reputation as being the dirtiest and vilest city on earth. The weather was everything that could be desired. I don’t forgive the postal people for not delivering the Evelyn Christmas gift and have had to enjoy the smokes only in dreams’.
Spr Dennis Shepherdson (Lilydale), No 5 Tunnelling Company: Leaves Australia bound for Europe on the HMAT Warilda.
Dvr Thomas Priest (Seville), No 5 Tunnelling Company: Leaves Australia bound for Europe on the HMAT Warilda. He had married a few weeks before and unbeknownst to him, he would be leaving his wife pregnant with their first child.