John William Ackroyd (SN 21676) required the consent of his parents John and Alice when, as a 19 year old Salvation Army Officer, he enlisted on July 24th 1917. He trained with the Australian Medical Corps at Broadmeadows before embarking from Sydney on the Borda on July 17th 1918. He reached England in late September, then deployed to France on November 10th, the day before the Armistice was signed. Despite missing the fighting, in early March 1919 he required evacuation to the Bethnal Green Military Hospital in England. What was initially thought to have been an accidental ankle sprain proved to be a leg fracture. He returned to Australia as a member of the nursing staff on the Euripides, disembarking at Melbourne on October 20th 1919.