Alexander Bell (SN 12245) was a 26 year old clerk from Victoria Street Ballarat at the time of his enlistment on January 22nd 1916. He trained at Ballarat, then with the Australian Medical Corps at Ascot Vale. He embarked aboard the Runic on June 20th 1916 to serve with the 10th Field Ambulance, but en route he became ill and was admitted to the ship’s hospital suffering from influenza. Much of his time in England was spent in hospital suffering from myalgia. By early May 1917 it had been determined that he should return home, so on May 4th he left England on the Miltiades, reaching Melbourne on July 2nd. He was discharged as ‘medically unfit – debility post cerebro spinal meningitis’. He died in November 1967 aged 77.