Raymond Wilson (SN 4332) had served for three years with the 71st Infantry before he enlisted in Ballarat on July 12th 1915. He was a 21 year old French polisher from Grant Street. He trained at Ascot Vale and Ballarat and was allocated to the 14th Battalion reinforcements. On December 29th he embarked from Melbourne on the Demosthenes and sailed via Egypt to France. On August 15th 1916 he was wounded in action, suffering a gunshot wound to his foot, and evacuated to the Lord Darby War Hospital at Warrington in England. In 1918 he was absent without leave from March 20th to April 18th for which he forfeited 50 day’s pay. It was subsequently revealed that on March 27th 1918 he had married 24 year old Maud Wright at St. Paul’s Church at Warrington. In May he was hospitalised when he accidentally injured his right knee when jumping over an old trench.
After the war he returned home on the Suevic and disembarked at Melbourne on January 5th 1919.
He died in May 1963 at the age of 68.