13th Field Artillery Brigade
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George Thomas Austin (SN 660) born in Ballarat, was a 29 year old miner when he enlisted in Ballarat on August 14th 1915. Assigned to the 29th Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Ascanius on November 10th bound for the Western Front. He was transferred to the 13th Field Artillery Brigade with whom he was serving when he was wounded in action, gassed, on November 5th 1917 and evacuated to hospital in England. His recovery was slowed by some other health problems and hospitalisations. After the war he returned home on the Armagh, disembarked on May 18th 1919 and was discharged on July 10th.