Samuel Maurice Crawford (SN1327) born in Ballarat was a 20 year old plumber when he enlisted on October 27th 1914. Assigned to the 8th Battalion his unit embarked from Melbourne aboard the Clan Macgillivray on February 2nd 1915 and served at Gallipoli before moving on to the Western Front in France. Aside from a couple of short periods of illness he came through the war unscathed until August 9th 1918 when he was wounded in action in the Battle of Amiens. He suffered a shrapnel wound to the neck, which was presumably mild because within two weeks he was back with his unit. He departed England aboard the Burma on December 14th, reaching Melbourne six weeks later on January 29th 1919 and was discharged on March 30th.