William Eastlake (SN 6260) born at Stawell, was a 20 year old carrier when he enlisted in Ballarat on May 8th 1916. Assigned to the 8th Battalion his unit embarked from Melbourne aboard the Euripides on September 11th 1916 reaching England in late October. For much of the first months of 1917 he was troubled by conjunctivitis. He was wounded in action, gassed, on September 23rd 1917 and evacuated to hospital in London suffering from gas poisoning and severe conjunctivitis. It was not until mid-September in 1918 that he was able to return to France, attached to the 1st Machine Gun Battalion. After the war he returned to Australia on the Nestor and disembarked at Melbourne on December 15th 1919 and was discharged on July 26th 2020.