Pte George Allen (Lilydale) & Pte Thomas Goodall (Lilydale), 8th Battalion: Both were killed in action. According to one eye witness, during the advance on Passchendaele. George Allen was at the Company Headquarters, just behind a pillbox on Passchendaele Ridge, and was standing with Thomas in a trench just outside having a smoke. Suddenly a high explosive shell landed in the trench killing both of them and another two soldiers instantly. Their mates buried them all together the next day in a shell hole near where they fell, they were both 27 years old and both are remembered on the memorial at Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium.
Dvr Alfred Pomeroy (Wandin), 24th Field Artillery Brigade: Is wounded in action, shrapnel wound to the face, and is evacuated to hospital in Belgium.