Richard Arthur Treherne (SN 66) was born in England but was a 27 year old music teacher when he enlisted in Ballarat on August 17th 1914. On October 21st he embarked with the first ANZAC fleet and sailed to Egypt before landing at Gallipoli with the 8th Infantry Battalion. On May 8th he was wounded in action suffering a sprained ankle. He was evacuated first to Malta and then to Egypt. He rejoined his unit in France in July 1917 then was again wounded in action on October 4th suffering a severe shrapnel wound to his right arm. He was evacuated to hospital in England where his arm had to be amputated and the war, for him, was over. He was returned to Australia and discharged ‘medically unfit’ on April 19th 1918.