Trp Bert Hutchinson (Lilydale), 4^th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Palestine. In a letter to his future wife, Jessie Mackenzie of Yalca, Vic – ‘I have been in Jericho and this is a very small place and very dirty. This is a new village as far as this land goes. Ancient Jericho was about one mile away from the present town. We had a scrap a few days ago and our casualties were rather numerous. Another of my mates paid the supreme sacrifice. I was lucky and did not get a scratch’.