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The Melbourne camp, too, recently had its strike action and their ringleaders were transferred here last Sunday. To hear their accounts, the conditions in the Melbourne camp must have been abominable. The Commander there is said to have been even less reliable than ours and the whole management even worse than here. Due to frequent drought,
they were left without water for showering and laundering on numerous occasions. When nothing was done about it despite several entreaties, they opted for strike action, which lasted for 5 days. During this episode, a German who had come too close to the barbed wire, was shot at by the guards outside and wounded in the chest. Unbelievably, the bullet went right through and hit another German who was playing chess, and he died on impact. Shooting at a defenceless man who is already behind barbed wire is just bottomless infamy
Internment camp diary, April-August 1915, from: and cowardice.
For his funeral, the Commander sent a wreath, which the camp promptly sent back.