Jack Ellery (SN 55608) born in Ballarat, enlisted in Melbourne in October 1917, just a couple of days after his 18th birthday. As a reinforcement for the 7th Infantry Battalion, he embarked from Melbourne aboard the Marathon on July 23rd and reached England on September 27th 1918, six weeks before the fighting ceased. His time in England was not without incident and he was sentenced to 28 days detention and fined 34 days' pay for 'using insubordinate language to his superior officer and disobeying in such a manner as to show willful defiance of authority'. In January 1919 he was posted to France, where he spent five months engaged in the post war dismantling and packing up. He disembarked back in Melbourne on November 27th and was discharged on December 20th 1919.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Jack Ellier.

One of a number of soldiers with multiple entries in the original register, he is also recognised at Tree 3523.