Joseph Felix Bergin (SN 15), described as a ‘strong chap’, was born at Geelong but was a driver living at Warrenheip when he enlisted on August 18th 1914. He sailed with the first contingent, leaving Melbourne on the Benalla, where he served as batman to Lt. Col. William Bolton. As a senior officer’s orderly, he soon found himself returning to Australia, ironically on HMAT Ballarat, and arrived back in Melbourne on August 6th 1915. He sailed again on July 28th 1916, this time on the Themistocles, and joined the 8th Battalion in France in September. He was wounded in action on December 16th suffering a minor gunshot wound to the chin. He recovered from this and served through until April 16th 1918 when he was killed in action when struck by a shell fragment. Chaplain Joseph Booth reported ‘It was my sad duty to lay Cpl. J.F. Bergin to rest in a little cemetery behind the line. Here we laid him to rest and placed above him a good, substantial cross to mark his resting place.’ He is buried at the Rue-du-Bois British Cemetery in France, but his parents’ grave in the Ballarat New Cemetery carries the Rising Sun badge in his memory.