William Gason (SN 4506) born in Geelong, was a 33 year old labourer when he enlisted on September 7th 1915. Assigned to the 8th Battalion his unit embarked from Melbourne aboard the Themistocles on January 28th 1916. In April 1916 he was transferred to the 58th Battalion and moved to France. On July 19th, during the charge at Fromelles, he was wounded, suffering a shrapnel wound to his left foot. He was evacuated to the hospital in England. He rejoined his unit in France in October but illness forced him back to England in March 1917. Once more he returned to France, but on May 11th 1917 he was wounded again. A gunshot wound to his chest/abdomen required his evacuation to hospital at Southampton. He was then invalided to Australia, leaving England on the Kanowna disembarking on September 11th 1917 and being discharged 'medically unfit' on February 12th 1918.