William Jose Suares (SN 1901) born in Melbourne, was a 29 year old well borer when he enlisted at Cloncurry, Queensland, on March 31st 1916. Assigned to the 41st Infantry Battalion, he embarked from Brisbane aboard the Boorara on August 16th and reached the battlefields of France in November. In June 1917 he suffered shrapnel wounds to his foot and back and was evacuated to England. He rejoined his unit in October but two weeks later he was again wounded, a shrapnel wound to his chest and again evacuated to hospital in England. While recovering, on February 14th 1918, he married Mary Wood at Winchcombe, England. He returned to France in April and received another, less severe, wound in August. He returned to Australia aboard the Demosthenes, disembarked at Sydney on September 19th 1919 and was discharged on November 5th. He served again in WW2 with the service number V84231.

His brothers Leslie, Hugh and Claud also served in the AIF and are honoured with trees in the Avenue.