Alfred Evans, a 21 year old dental assistant from Ballarat, enlisted at Prahran on March 15th 1916 and was assigned to the 46th Battalion. On May 3rd, two weeks before embarking for England on the Medic, he married the love of his life, Mary Morton. After being posted to France in September, he was admitted to hospital on November 18th, suffering from shell shock. He did not rejoin his unit until May 1917 and was wounded again in October, suffering a severe gunshot wound to his left knee and right finger. Two weeks later he was transferred to hospital in England and returned to Australia on the Borda in April 1918. He was discharged as medically unfit on July 17th 1918.