Ordinary Seaman Samuel Rouget (Wandin): Is transferred to HMAS Fantome, a Cadmus class sloop, and would spend the next few months as part of the crew as they undertake survey operations around Australian waters as well as performing a number of patrols around the Asia-Pacific region.
Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: On board the HMAS Wiltshire, from his diary –‘We are well into the Red Sea, I’ve had enough of it all ready. I did not know what it was to sweat till I got here, was doing fatigue in No 5 hold, getting up rotten potatoes; I’d sooner be a stoker in the furnaces’.