Arthur Chandler (SN 55578) a 22 year old labourer from Talbot Street Ballarat, enlisted at Geelong on May 2nd 1918. He trained at Broadmeadows before embarking on the Marathon on July 23rd. He disembarked at London on September 27th, and soon after he was attached to the 7th Battalion. He was not moved to France until February 1919, three months after the signing of the Armistice, but his immediate post war service was blemished by several charges of being absent without leave. He returned to Australia on the Suevic, reaching Melbourne on September 10th 1919. He died in October 1961 at the age of 66.