In Melbourne the loading of AIF troops for the first convoy begins.

HMAT Wiltshire
Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance

Pte William Johnson (Mt Evelyn), 2^nd Field Ambulance

Pte Harry Allen (Mt Evelyn), 2^nd Field Ambulance

Pte Harry Matthews (Seville), 2^nd Field Ambulance

Trp John Taggart (Wandin), 4^th Light Horse Regiment

HMAT Hororata
Cpl William Aicher (Mt Evelyn), 6^th Battalion

Pte Horace Allen (Mt Evelyn), 6^th Battalion

Pte Henry Hunt (Lilydale), 6^th Battalion

Pte Harry McCormack (Wandin), 6^th Battalion

Pte Donald Fergus Scott (Mt Evelyn), 6^th Battalion

Pte Lyndon Watt (Lilydale), 6^th Battalion

Pte Richard Grossman (Mt Dandenong), 7^th Battalion

Pte Clyde Hoffman (Montrose), 7^th Battalion

Pte Walter Hoffman (Montrose), 7^th Battalion

Pte Henry Lalor (Montrose), 7^th Battalion

Pte Wilfred Tucker (Mt Dandenong), 7^th Battalion

Pte Horace Turner (Mt Dandenong), 7^th Battalion

HMAT Benalla
Dvr Arthur Bedbrook (Lilydale), Australian Army Service Corps

Pte Frederick Davies (Kilsyth), 8^th Battalion

Pte Henry Holbrook (Montrose), 8^th Battalion

Pte Jack Lester (Yering), 8^th Battalion

Pte Thomas Mackay (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion

Pte Lance Matthews (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion

Pte Edwin Meade (Mooroolbark), 8^th Battalion

Pte Herbert Meade (Mooroolbark), 8^th Battalion

Pte Adrian Camp (Wandin), 8^th Battalion

Pte Archie ‘Smiler’ Williams (Lilydale), 8^th Battalion –

In a letter to his mother.

‘We broke camp on Monday ___ at 9am, entrained at Broadmeadows and at 1pm went aboard the ____ at the railway pier; we sailed at 3pm the same day for ____. The trip was full of interest to the troops. Many of us had never been outside the Heads – indeed many from the country districts had never seen the ocean at all and to them the huge porpoises, whales, sharks, albatrosses and various other sea inhabitants encountered were very interesting. The weather too was good and not many seasick’.