Article published in the ‘Lilydale Express’ –

OUR SOLDIERS. PRESENTATIONS AT THE CAMP.

The President of the Lillydale Shire (Cr Wallace), Crs Hughes, McGhee and Blair, Messrs Phillips, Milne, Simpson, Janson, and A Stallworthy (hon sec), journeyed to Broadmeadows Military Camp on Thursday, 15th inst, and presented a very serviceable leather wallet and a typewritten letter under the seal of the shire council and signed by all the councillors, the shire secretary, and Messrs Phillips, Janson, Milne, Gilson, Beresford, W Hill, Pettit, Simpson, McGregor, Dr Short, and Stallworthy, to the following thirty-five members of the Expeditionary Forces from the Lillydale Shire:

Frank Nicholls, Samuel Goodwin, Thomas McKay, Fred Davies, E Meade, H Meade, Jas. Murphy, A H Robertson, A R Williams, L Watt, W L Aicher, D F Scott, J Taggart, Hugh D Wilson, Corp McLeod, Leo Muir, Ralph Goode, A Parish, A J Mattingley, Corp C Noden, A Niblett, W Colville, Jas J Jeffries, Thos E Milner, A E Bedbrook, C Willimott, L J Lawlor, R L Purves, Henry Hunt, Alb Lockwood, Leonard Dawes, Fred Dawes, Norman Rooney, B C Gilson, M McCristal.