Bertram Brudenell (SN 875) born in Ballarat, was a 21 year old motor mechanic and chauffeur when he enlisted at Ballarat on August 27th1914. He embarked aboard the Benalla on October 19th with the 8th Infantry Battalion and sailed to Egypt and then Gallipoli. On July 22nd at Gallipoli, he suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his ankle. An enquiry attributed his injury to carelessness, but it necessitated the amputation of his left leg below the knee. Consequently, he was returned to Australia aboard the Ascanius. He disembarked at Melbourne on April 30th1916 and was discharged medically unfit on August 9th. He also enlisted to serve during WW2 with service number V17191.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Bertram Brudenhall.