Henry Gilbert Halsted (SN 2074) was born in Melbourne and was a 23 year old cook when he enlisted in Ballarat on July 15th 1915. Assigned to the 24th Infantry Battalion he embarked from Melbourne aboard the Anchises on August 26th 1915. He landed on Gallipoli in October and served there until the evacuation in December. After some leave and further training in Egypt, he moved to France in March 1916. For two years he avoided injury but on March 8th 1918 he was wounded in action when he received shrapnel wounds to his right arm and scalp. He was evacuated to a hospital ship and transferred to hospital in England and did not rejoin his unit in France until November 9th , just two days before the signing of the Armistice. He returned to Australia on the Trasos Montes, reaching Melbourne on May 22nd 1919. He was discharged on August 15th 1919.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Henry G. Halstead.