Harold William Brown (SN 3362) was an 18 year old farm labourer from Gregory Street in Ballarat when, with the consent of his mother, Lucinda, he enlisted on March 21st 1917. He trained at Broadmeadows with the 2nd Depot Battalion before embarking from Melbourne aboard the Suevic on June 21st and disembarking at Liverpool on August 26th. Shortly after his arrival in England he was hospitalised at Seaforth, suffering from mumps. In January 1918 he joined the 38th Battalion in France where, on July 25th he was wounded in action, suffering gas poisoning. In early November 1918 he was hospitalised with influenza, and was in hospital when the Armistice was signed. He returned to Australia on the Argyllshire, disembarking at Melbourne on September 22nd 1919. He died in January 1959 aged 60.