Trp Kavan Lawlor (Coldstream), 8^th Light Horse Regiment: Arrives at Anzac Cove and is moved up into the front line trenches with his regiment, which has been decimated after the charge at the Nek the month before.

Pte Ralph Goode (Lilydale), 2^nd Field Ambulance: On Lemnos Island. In his diary –‘Of the original one hundred and eight bearers who landed on the 25^th of April, only thirty of us came off last Friday. We had fifteen killed and fifty-five wounded, remainder sick. We had our sixth reinforcements and came off 60% below strength’.

William Mitchell (Lilydale): Leaves his job as a bushman and enlists in the AIF, he is 44 years old and married.