May 17, 1918 On being invalided home, private Roy AITKEN, son of Mrs Ellen AITKEN, of Mitre Lake, arrived home on Saturday night. A welcome home was last night tendered at Mitre Lake to this gallant soldier, who is the first to return to Mitre Lake. Private AITKEN has received his discharge. At a meeting held at Minimay on Saturday last, it was decided to arrange a Welcome Home Social for Friday evening, 17th inst., to Bombardier F.L. HAWKINS, who arrived home on Tuesday last. The many friends of Corporal Basil LAVERY, M.M. son of Mr and Mrs B. LAVERY, of Minimay, will be pleased to learn that he has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant. Private W.G.T. MITCHELL, who was recently reported wounded, is now reported as having sustained a serious gunshot wound in the shoulder. Daryl Crabtree Gladstone Qld www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/