Ernest Stanley Bath (SN 7976) was born in Ballarat and attended the Urquhart Street State School. He was a 28 year old bootmaker when he enlisted in July 1915. On November 5th 1915 he embarked from Melbourne aboard the Bakara and reached the battlefields of France in June 1916. He served through the war as a driver with the 18th Company Australian Army Service Corps and, aside from an accidental head laceration in October 1917, he came through the war unscathed. After the war he returned to Australia on the Kildonian Castle and disembarked back in Melbourne on May 7th 1919.

One of a number of soldiers with multiple entries in the original register, he is also recognised at Tree 1460.