William Colville (Wandin): Leaves his job as a horse breaker to enlist in the AIF, he is 40 years old.
William Teese (Mt Evelyn): Leaves his job as an engineer and enlists in the AIF, he is 41 years old and married.
Pte Frank Kingsley-Norris (Lilydale), 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance: In an excerpt from his auto-biography ‘No Memories for Pain’.
‘We had been in camp about six weeks when the rumours began. All doubtful information was known as a ‘furphy’. The communal latrines for rankers were the great gossip centres, certainty, conjecture and rumours were bandied about from seat to seat. The sanitary cart consisted of a large galvanized tank mounted on two wheels on the side of which was the name of the maker – FURPHY’.
Pte Donald Fergus Scott (Mt Evelyn), 6th Battalion: In a letter to his parents.
‘I speak very highly of the officers and the general treatment at the camp. The work at first appeared hard to one who had not done much walking, but it was all undertaken with a hearty cheerfulness. All in the camp are looking forward to proceeding to the front and hope the rumour is incorrect that they are to be detailed for garrison duty to Great Britain. We volunteers fight for the flag and we will be disappointed if we do not have the chance of fighting’.