Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance: At Cape Helles. In his diary – ‘At 1am this morning we were called out to prepare to embark (2^nd Brigade). At 4am we boarded lighters and were towed out to a mine sweeper and embarked on her (Folkestone) after 1½ hours sail we disembarked at Cape Helles, at the place where the British and French landed and marched inland to about 1½ miles. We are behind the firing line where we are camped in a gully in the middle of a vineyard. Our guns, British and French, are giving the Turks a fearful bombardment. The shells are shrieking over my head something awful’.

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion: At Cape Helles. In a letter to a friend in Lilydale – ‘We were relieved on May 6^th with orders that the 2^nd Brigade were to go to Cape Helles at the end of the Peninsula to assist there. We were shipped on mine sweepers at 3am on Friday and reached the Cape at 8 o’clock, landed and marched two miles inland, passing a fort with big 9 inch guns that had been destroyed by the Queen Elizabeth in the bombardment. We bivouacked about two miles from the firing line’.

James Reade (Yering): Leaves his family’s farm at Yering and enlists in the AIF, he is 24 years old.