Roy Victor Holloway (SN 327) was employed as a labourer at the Yarraville Sugar Works when he enlisted at Broadmeadows on September 10th 1914. On December 22nd he sailed with the first AIF contingent, aboard the Ulysses and, as a member of the 14th Battalion, he landed on Gallipoli early on April 26th 1915. A spell of influenza caused him to be evacuated to No. 3 General Hospital at Mudros for a short period of time. After the final Gallipoli evacuation, and a spell in Egypt, he found himself in France where he was wounded in action at Pozieres in August 1916. In June 1917 he was reported as missing, but it was eventually confirmed that he had been wounded in the first battle of Bullecourt and had become a prisoner of war of the Germans. He remained in captivity at Soltau in Germany until the war’s end, arriving back in England in January 1919 before returning to Australia in May of that year aboard the Port Napier. He was discharged from the army in September 1919, having served for five years through some of the fiercest battles of the war. He resumed his family and community life in Ballarat but interrupted this with four years of home service during World War 2. He died in July 1981 at the age of 84.