Cpl Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: In the field in France. In his diary –‘Relieved by 2/1 East Lancasters 10am, thank goodness I got out safe. The liveliest twenty minutes I’ve had for a long while getting out, marched to Dominion Camp (near Ouderdom), mud up to our necks’.
Lt James Wilken (Kilsyth), Australian Flying Corps: Is awarded the Meritorious Service Medal ‘in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in the Field, in Mesopotamia’.
Pte Oswald Wilson (Lilydale), 29th Battalion: Arrives in Australia from Europe to be discharged as medically unfit as a result of losing his right leg.