Henry (Harry) Ivan Stanley Bawden (SN 5032) was born in Bendigo but was a 27 year old cyanider from Sebastopol, when he enlisted in Ballarat on January 8th 1916. Posted to the 8th Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Suffolk on April 1st and sailed via Egypt to England. He was hospitalised in England due to illness but joined his unit in France in November. After a month in France illness forced him back to England. In March 1917 he was transferred to the 65th Battalion but illness continued to interrupt his service, and it was decided he should be returned to Australia aboard the Hospital Transport Port Darwin, disembarking at Melbourne on March 14th 1918. He was discharged as medically unfit ‘dilated action of the heart’ on April 8th 1918. His brother Frederick (tree 1985) was killed at Passchendaele on October 4th 1917.

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

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Harry I. S. Bawden.