38th Battalion
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Ronald Adams (SN 3014) originally from Gordon, was a 26 year old grocer from Peel Street Ballarat East when he enlisted on January 26th 1917. He embarked less than a month later on the A70 Ballarat. He reached France in October to serve with the 2nd Machine Gun Battalion. On April 22nd 1918 he was gassed and evacuated to hospital. After the war, while awaiting return to Australia he blemished his record by ‘being in possession of a military bicycle without the necessary authority’, which cost him seven day’s pay. He disembarked from the Persic, at Melbourne, on August 29th 1919. He died in October 1962 aged 73.
