24th Battalion
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Basil Quihampton Benaim (SN 123) born at Moliagul, was a 20 year old draper when he enlisted in Ballarat on March 13th 1915. Assigned to the 24th Infantry Battalion, he embarked aboard the Euripides on May 8th and sailed to Egypt before being deployed to France. In August 1916 he suffered a head wound and could not rejoin his unit until February 1917. Just a month later he was again wounded, suffering a severe gunshot wound to his right leg that prompted his return to Australia. He returned aboard the Euripides, disembarked on March 21st 1918 and was discharged medically unfit on July 18th.
