Charles Henry Alexander Cruickshank (SN 3532) born in Scotland, was a 33 year old widower, a traveller by occupation, when he enlisted in Melbourne on February 17th 1916. Assigned to the 29th Infantry Battalion, he embarked from Melbourne on August 1st aboard the Orsova and sailed to England. In December 1916 he crossed to the battlefields of France where he was fortunate enough to serve without serious injury or illness. In October 1918, shortly before the war’s end he was transferred to the 32nd Battalion. He returned to Australia aboard the Aeneas, disembarked at Melbourne on July 12th 1919 and was discharged on August 26th.