Henry Charles Calvert (SN 3261) was a 19 year old miner living in Stawell when he enlisted on July 12th 1915. His enlistment required the consent of his parents who lived in Sutton Street in Ballarat. He trained at Ascot Vale before embarking on the A71 Nestor on October 11th 1915. He travelled to Egypt then on the England, being posted to the 6th then the 58th Battalion. In March 1916 he was transferred to the 5th Pioneer Battalion in France. Aside from an extended period of illness in 1917 and an incident where he was ‘absent from a place designated by his C.O.’, he came through the war unscathed. He left England on December 22nd 1918 on the Bakara and reached Melbourne on February 14th 1919. He died in February 1964 at the age of 67.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Chas. H. Calvert.