Charles Lloyd Coulson (SN 1642) born in Ballarat was a 20 year old butcher when he enlisted on March 6th 1916. Assigned to the 60th Battalion, he embarked from Melbourne aboard the Port Lincoln on May 4th. In November of 1916 he was withdrawn to England for treatment for trench feet but was able to rejoin his unit in January 1917. On September 25th in 1917, while carrying a message to Battalion Headquarters in Belgium, he was buried by a shell burst. He was reported, on admission to hospital, ‘nervous, stammering speech and pain in legs'. Once over the effects of shell shock he rejoined his unit in December. On June 6th 1918 it was reported that he had accidently sprained his ankle, but a week later he was admitted to Hospital suffering from a fractured left fibula. Once more he recovered and returned to the Front, now attached to the 59th Battalion, just two weeks before the signing of the Armistice. He left England in September 1919 on the Port Denison, disembarking at Melbourne on November 13th and discharged January 5th 1920.