Stoker Charles Ebeling (Wandin), HMAS Swan: After a number of years serving on HMAS Encounter he is transferred to the crew of HMAS Swan, a torpedo boat destroyer then on anti-submarine service in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean. It also took part in the bombarding of the Albanian coast in October and in December they were chosen to carry out a mission of inquiry at the Cossack (anti-Bolshevik) headquarters at Novocherkassk via the Black Sea. It returned to Australia in March 1919.
Sgt Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2nd Field Ambulance: In the field in France. In his diary – ‘Was warned at 6pm tonight to be ready to proceed on furlough to Australia. I don’t know where I am, I’m half ratty, Fritz is dropping shells within a couple of hundred yards of us, I’ve lost my nerve, what if I should get hit before I leave, and there’s his bombers tonight and its moonlight, I’m that ‘windy’ I feel like fainting. 10pm – for the last two hours the sky has been full of Fritz planes, whoof, whoof, whoof come his bombs. Two of his planes have been brought down in flames’.