4th Machine Gun Battalion
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Denis Cass (SN 307) born at Koroit, was a 34 year old farm labourer when he enlisted at Shepparton on August 18th 1914. He embarked aboard the Hororata on October 18th and, with the first ANZAC fleet, sailed to Egypt. With the 7th Infantry Battalion, he took part in the historic Gallipoli landing on April 25th 1915 at which he sustained severe gunshot wounds to his legs, one of which was fractured. He was evacuated to hospital then returned to Australia aboard the Themistocles, disembarked at Melbourne on September 9th 1915 and was discharged on December 18th ‘medically unfit, compound fracture of the femur’.
