Arthur Herbert Curwen-Walkerwas educated at Ballarat High School and then Duntroon Military College. He was a powerful swimmer and the Australian War Memorial records that while at Duntroon, at 19 years of age: ‘... he dived into 13 feet water in the Murrumbidgee N.S.W. and brought up two unconscious fellow cadets (both big men) from the bottom of river and to the bank, one in each hand, and saved their lives’. He sailed from Australia in December 1914 on the Ulysses and landed at Gallipoli with the 14th Battalion. Little more than a week into the campaign, he was wounded at Walker’s Ridge and subsequently died on board HMT Devanha on May 3rd 1915. He was buried at sea but is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli.