Herbert Elijah Bryant (SN 6965) was a 27 year old storeman from Raglan Street in Ballarat when he enlisted on June 6th 1916. He had already been a member of a local rifle club for nine years and was noted as a ‘good rifle shot’. He trained with the 39th Battalion in Ballarat before being posted to 7th Battalion reinforcements at Royal Park in Melbourne. He embarked from Melbourne on the Hororata on November 23rd, reaching Plymouth, England, two months later. After further training in England, on May 10th 1917, he joined the 7th Battalion in France. In September of that year he was wounded in action, but his wounds were slight and he was able to remain on duty. In December of 1917 he was posted for a short period to the 177th Tunnelling Company, but returned to the 7th Battalion in early 1918. On August 25th 1918 he was wounded for a second time, suffering from gas poisoning, and evacuated to the Beaufort Military Hospital at Bristol. After the war he returned to Australia on the Ceramic, but on March 11th 1919 he was forced to disembark at Hobart where he was admitted to hospital suffering from influenza. He died in April 1966 at the age of 77.