15th Brigade Machine Gun Company
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Alfred Bayley (SN 247) born at Ballarat was a 20 year old artist when he enlisted in Melbourne on April 6th 1915. Assigned to the 21st Infantry Battalion, he embarked aboard the Ulysses on May 8th, to Egypt and then Gallipoli. After Gallipoli he was transferred briefly to the 58th Battalion before he joined the 15th Machine Gun Company in France in June 1916. He was wounded in action twice; a shrapnel wound to the head in September 1917 and gassed in May 1918. The gas appears to have triggered some health issues, and he was returned to Australia aboard the Saxon, disembarked at Melbourne on January 30th 1919 and was discharged on March 24th ‘medically unfit, neurasthenia’. He also enlisted to serve during WW2 with service number V356440.
