Pte Lyndon Watt (Lilydale), 6^th Battalion: At Cape Helles. In a letter to his friends in Lilydale – ‘On 5^th May our brigade re-embarked and sailed down the end of the Peninsula and landed at Fort Ledd et Bahr, where British and French troops had already driven the Turks back about three miles’.

Edith Yeaman (Montrose): Leaves her position as a nurse at the Melbourne Hospital and joins the Australian Army Nursing Service, she is 30 years of age.