Claude Harold Schafer (SN 2045) enlisted using the surname of Schaefer, was a 23 year old painter and living at 407 Sebastopol Street when he enlisted on the July 12th 1915 with the 22nd Battalion. He was born in Ballarat, and attended Urquhart Street State school. He served at Gallipoli first, then arrived in France in March 1916. In July he was wounded in the neck and wrist and was evacuated to Hospital at Tidworth in England. After many months it was recommended by the Military Medical Board that he return to Australia. He disembarked in Melbourne on July 17th 1917 and was discharged as medically unfit on August 23rd 1917.

His brother John Charles George Schafer (SN 10620) also served but does not have a tree in the Ballarat Avenue of Honour.