8th Battalion
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Gordon Stanley Arnel (SN 1904) born at Ballarat, was a 20 year old farmer when he enlisted at St. Arnaud on January 11th 1915. Assigned to the 8th Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Hororata on April 17th and sailed to Egypt. He joined his unit at Gallipoli where he was wounded in July. Shrapnel wounds to his head and legs caused his evacuation to Malta and then on to England. Once recovered, he joined his unit in France but in July 1916 he suffered a severe wound to his thigh. A number of illness and discipline issues extended his time in England, but he returned to France in May 1918 only to be wounded again, gassed, in August. When the fighting ceased, he was returned to Australia aboard the Burma for discharge. He served again in WW2 with the service number V4437.
