Richard William Richards (SN 3925) born at Ballarat, was a 19 year old electric lamp attendant when he enlisted in Ballarat on July 16th 1915. Assigned to the 6th Infantry Battalion, he embarked aboard the Ceramic on November 23rd. After arriving in Egypt, he was transferred to the 46th Battalion before moving to France. Shortly after arriving in France, he faced the charge of sleeping at his post while on sentinel duty and was sentenced to 18 months detention. Most of his sentence was remitted and he rejoined his unit. In November 1917 trench fever caused his evacuation to hospital, then in August 1918 he suffered a gunshot wound to his arm. He was evacuated to hospital in England before being returned to Australia aboard the Suevic. He disembarked at Melbourne on January 5th 1919 and was discharged medically unfit on September 9th.