5th Battalion
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Joseph Quinlan (SN 4911) was born in Ballarat and was a 31 year old commission agent when he enlisted on July 17th 1915. He was drafted first to the 14th Infantry Battalion and embarked from Melbourne on board the Anchises in March 1916. He was transferred to the Cyclist Training Battalion while training in Egypt, and finally to the 5th Infantry Battalion on his arrival in France in January 1918. On July 12th 1918 he was killed in an artillery barrage and is buried in La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck, France.
