39th Infantry Battalion
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William Edward Bainbridge (SN 825) born at Ballarat, was a married 32 year old painter when he enlisted in Ballarat on February 14th 1916. Assigned to the 39th Infantry Battalion, he embarked aboard the Ascanius on May 27th and reached the battle front in France in November. His service was incident free until September 1918 when he sustained a severe gunshot wound to his thigh. He was evacuated to hospital in England and then returned to Australia aboard the Orontes. He disembarked at Melbourne on January 30th 1919 and discharged medically unfit on March 9th.
