George Douglas (SN 1533) born in Ballarat was a 23 year old miner when he enlisted on December 10th 1914. Assigned to the 7th Battalion his unit embarked from Melbourne aboard the Runic on February 19th 1915. On August 8th during the fighting at Lone Pine, he sustained a ‘bomb wound' which proved to be slight, as he was able to rejoin his unit within a couple of days. While in Egypt, after the Gallipoli evacuation, he was transferred to the 59th Battalion with whom he served in France. In September 1918, with the end of the war in sight, he was hospitalised with an illness. After the war he returned to Australia on the Kashmir and disembarked at Melbourne on April 30th 1919 and discharged on June 29th.