William Alfred Burridge (SN 1629) was a 21 year old boiler maker when he enlisted in Ballarat on February 14th 1916. He had already had six years of cadet experience before training with the 39th and 14th Depot Battalions in Ballarat, before transferring to the 60th Battalion reinforcements at Broadmeadows. He sailed from Melbourne on the Port Lincoln on May 4th 1916, travelling via Egypt to England where he was attached to the 15th Training Battalion. In early February 1917 he joined the 58th Battalion in France but he was troubled by illness, particularly influenza, through 1917 and early 1918. On September 29th 1918 he was wounded in action, sustaining a mild gunshot wound to his right knee that still required his evacuation to the Graylingwell War Hospital at Chichester in England. He did not return to the front line and left England in January 1919 aboard the Demosthenes, from which he disembarked at Melbourne on March 2nd 1919. He died in June 1973 at the age of 78.