Clarence Percival Dillon (SN 3026) born in Ballarat was an 18 year old farmer when he enlisted on July 14th 1915. Assigned to the 7th Battalion his unit embarked from Melbourne aboard the Osterley on September 29th. On arrival in Egypt he was hospitalised in Cairo suffering from mumps then neurasthenia. In late March 1916 he left Alexandria and arrived in France in early April. On April 11th, just a week after his arrival, he was hospitalised with influenza. A month later he was transferred to England where it was decided he should return home. He departed England on October 17th 1916 on the Marama and was discharged in Melbourne on December 8th as ‘medically unfit – gastric ulcer'.