John ‘Jack’ Williams (SN 92) born at Ballarat, was a 21 year old painter and driver when he enlisted in Ballarat on August 24th 1914. Assigned to the 8th Infantry Battalion, he embarked aboard the Benalla on October 19th and sailed to Egypt. He took part in the Gallipoli landing of April 25th 1915 and was wounded, a gunshot wound to his foot, in early May. He was evacuated to hospital at Malta but rejoined his unit in July. After the Gallipoli campaign he was moved to France in March 1916. In October 1917 he was again wounded in action, gassed, but was able to remain with his unit. A month later, illness forced his evacuation to hospital in England. He rejoined his unit in France in April 1918 but a few months later was granted ‘special 1914 leave’. He returned to Australia aboard the Port Sydney, disembarked at Melbourne on December 2nd 1918 and was discharged on January 31st 1919.