Leonard Samuel Calway (SN 2817) born at Warrenheip, was a 22 year old railway employee when he enlisted in Melbourne on July 7th 1915. On September 15th he embarked aboard the Makarini and served the last two weeks of the Gallipoli campaign with the 8th Infantry Battalion. From June 1916 he then served in France where he had some illness problems but avoided combat wounds. He returned to Australia aboard the Port Macquarie, disembarked at Melbourne on May 26th 1919 and was discharged on July 18th.

His brothers Francis and Frederick also served in the AIF and are honoured with trees in the Avenue.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Len S. Calway.