Edward Louden Blomeley (SN 1659) was born in Ballarat and educated at Urquhart Street State School and the Ballarat School of Mines. He was a 28-year-old bachelor employed as an iron moulder when he enlisted on January 24th 1916. He embarked aboard the Euripides on April 4th and was serving with the 59th Battalion at Fromelles when he suffered a gunshot wound to his hand in July 1916. He was evacuated to England where a finger was amputated. Discharged in October, he spent the remainder of the war in England, eventually being promoted to temporary Corporal. He left England to return to Australia on the Beltana in June 1919, spending several days in the ship's hospital en route, 'suffering with Neurasthenia'. He reached Melbourne in July but was subsequently admitted to the 11th Australian General Hospital where he died of a 'cerebella tumor and exhaustion' on October 29th 1919. He is buried in the Ballarat Old Cemetery and is remembered on the honour boards of te Urquhart Street State School and the S.M.B. He was 32 years of age.

His brother Leopold also served in the AIF and is honoured with a tree in the Avenue.