James Walter Wight (SN 3903) was born in Ballarat and was a 25 year old driver from Ripon Street, married to Gladys, when he enlisted on August 11th 1917. He trained with the Light Horse at Seymour before embarking aboard the Nestor in November. He sailed first to Egypt and then on to England where he disembarked on January 24th 1918. While in England he was transferred to the Artillery Corps before reaching the battlefields of France on April 22nd 1918. There he served out the final seven months of the war as a driver with the 14th Field Artillery Brigade. He came through this period physically unscathed but was hospitalised for several weeks with influenza in February 1919. Returning to Australia aboard the Argyllshire, he disembarked in Melbourne on September 22nd 1919 and was discharged a month later, credited with 671 days of overseas service.