George Young (SN 166/2806) was a 19 year old baker from Durham Street in Ballarat when he enlisted in Melbourne on August 17th 1914. Just a month into his training he was fined four day’s pay for drunkenness but he joined the 8th Battalion and embarked from Melbourne on October 19th on the Benalla. He sailed to Egypt and then to Gallipoli where he was involved in the landing on April 25th 1915. He was wounded in action on June 25th. He suffered a gunshot wound to his back and was evacuated to hospital at Heliopolis in Egypt. He was finally able to rejoin his battalion at Anzac on December 7th, by which time the early stages of the general evacuation were underway. Back in Egypt in February 1916 he was admitted to the Australian Dermatological Hospital where venereal disease was diagnosed. As a consequence, he was returned to Australia on the Mashobra and admitted to the Langwarren Hospital on August 7th, the day he disembarked. He was fit to return to duty in mid-October and embarked once again, now with the service number 2806. He sailed from Melbourne on October 20th aboard the Port Lincoln, later transferring to the Argyllshire, and disembarking in England on January 10th 1917. In May he joined the 46th Battalion in France. In May 1918 he was absent without leave for ten days and subsequently sentenced to 12 months detention with hard labour which commenced on July 10th. With the war over he was released on November 19th and the remainder of his sentence remitted. He returned to Australia on the Port Napier and disembarked at Melbourne on July 2nd 1919. He died in September 1961 aged 65.