Nelson Edward Bridges (SN 52981) was born in Ballarat, his family home in Lydiard Street North, but he enlisted in Darwin on February 11th 1918. He was 28 years of age and working as a teamster. He embarked from Brisbane on May 5th, then from Sydney on May 8th, aboard the Osterley, reaching Liverpool on July 10th 1918. In early October, little more than a month from the war’s end, he was moved to France where he served with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade and the Australian General Base Depot. A year to the day after sailing from Sydney, on May 8th 1919, he sailed from England on the Anchises, and reached Australia on October 13th. He died in November 1931, aged 42.