29th Battalion
Killed In Action
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Arthur St. John Colliver (SN 5006) from Peel Street in Ballarat had attended the Humffray Street State School. He was 36 years old, unmarried and a horse driver when he enlisted on August 8th 1917. He left Melbourne on board the Ulysses just before Christmas and, after several months training in England, he was posted to France with the 29th Battalion. On September 30th 1918, after only three months active service, he was killed in action in the fighting near St. Quentin Canal. He has no known grave but his sacrifice is commemorated on the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France.
