Edmund John Delaney (SN 530) born at Trentham was a 42 year old traveller when he enlisted on July 16th 1915 at Bendigo, but gave his home address at the Edinboro’ Castle Hotel in Armstrong Street Ballarat. He trained with the 12th Depot Battalion, transferred to the Miners’ Unit then to the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company. On February 20th 1916 he embarked from Sydney on the Ulysses, and by mid-May he was in France. Aside from minor medical issues he had no problems until late January 1918 when he was on leave in England. He was admitted to hospital suffering from ‘ICT foot’ (inflamed connective tissue). From this point he struggled to regain active service fitness and before the year was out he had returned to Australia on the Arawa. He was discharged on December 3rd 1918 as ‘medically unfit – myocarditis’.