Andrew Charles Young (SN 776) enlisted in Melbourne on July 9th 1915. Originally from Berringa, he was a 24 year old labourer from Main Street Ballarat. He trained at Flemington and Broadmeadows before embarking from Melbourne on November 9th aboard the Wandilla. His period of service with the 31st Battalion was frequently punctuated by discipline issues and even before reaching France he had been charged with ‘using obscene language to an NCO’. He reached France in June 1916 and on July 21st he was wounded in action, sustaining shrapnel wounds to his leg. He was evacuated to hospital at Calais before being transferred to the 2nd Western General Hospital at Manchester in England. It was while he was recovering that he went absent without leave for two months which landed him before a General Court Martial in early 1917. Soon after this he spent three months at the hospital at Bulford. He returned to his unit in mid 1917, but on August 14th he was charged with striking a superior officer for which he was sentenced to 120 days in detention. He served his detention at the Devizes Detention Barracks until early December when the remaining 23 days were remitted and he was returned to his unit in France. He faced another AWL charge in 1918 but saw out the remainder of the war and returned home on the Trasos Montes, disembarking at Melbourne on May 22nd 1919. He died on June 4th 1943 at the age of 51.