Edwin Bennett Kewley (SN 45A) born in Ballarat, was an 18 year old leather worker when he enlisted in Ballarat on March 29th 1915. After initial Medical Corps training, he embarked from Fremantle aboard the Wandilla on May 18th and in late August he reached Gallipoli to serve with the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station. After the Gallipoli campaign he served in England and France where he had some minor illness problems but managed to avoid combat wounds. When the war ended, he returned to Australia on nursing duty aboard the Kursk, disembarked at Melbourne on May 6th 1919 and was discharged on July 6th.

His father Albert and brother Frederick both died while serving in the AIF and are both recognised with trees in the Avenue.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Edward B. Kewley.