William George Ferguson (SN 3734) born in Sebastapol , was a 34 year old farrier when he enlisted on August 9th 1915.Assigned to the 14th Battalion his unit embarked from Melbourne aboard the Ceramic on November 23rd 1915. He sailed to Egypt, and while there in February 1916, he was transferred to the 8th Light Horse Regiment as a shoeing smith. He was frequently troubled by illness, particularly gastritis, through 1916 and 1917. In March 1918 he was again hospitalised, with arterio-sclerosis being diagnosed. He was assessed as permanently unfit for further active service and was returned to Australia on the Port Darwin. He disembarked at Melbourne on August 17th 1918 and was discharged on September 3rd as ‘medically unfit – arterio-sclerosis, gastritis'.