Pte Albert Douglas (Seville), 6^th Field Ambulance: Is wounded in action at Dawkin Point, Anzac Cove, severe gunshot wound to the shoulder, and is evacuated from the front line and sent to hospital on Malta. Letter written to his parents while in hospital in Malta – ‘I was wounded on 23^rd November, 1915… The bullet that hit me was a chance one, as I was not in a suitable position. I was near our hospital getting some tea from the cooks for our patients, and while bending down was bowled over — the chaps standing near said that the bullet made a loud sound when it hit me. It felt like a hard hit from the right end of an axe… The extraordinary part of the wound was, that so nearly was the force of the bullet spent, that the texture of the shirt and coat sent it back again into the wound’.

The following locals leave Australia bound for Egypt on the HMAT Ceramic:

Pte Joseph Kay (Lilydale), 5^th Battalion

Pte George Milne (Lilydale), 6^th Battalion

Pte Albert Ragartz (Seville), 6^th Battalion

Pte Arthur Orenshaw (Seville), 7^th Battalion

Pte William Orenshaw (Seville), 7^th Battalion

Pte William Hawkey (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion

Pte Arthur Newing (Mt Evelyn), 8^th Battalion

Pte James Varty (Mt Evelyn), 8^th Battalion

Pte Richard Goodall (Gruyere), 14^th Battalion

Pte Norman Hooke (Kilsyth), 14^th Battalion

Pte Frank Maher (Lilydale), 2^nd Machine Gun Company