2nd Australian General Hospital
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William Herbert Boustead (SN 3177) was a 21 year old from Dana Street in Ballarat when he enlisted on February 2nd 1915. He trained with the 6th Field Ambulance and embarked from Melbourne on the Ajana on June 4th. He disembarked in France in March 1916. In April of 1917 he transferred to the 2nd Australian General Hospital and served through the war with nothing more than a couple of bouts of minor illness. In April 1919 he left England as a member of the nursing staff aboard the Marathon, reaching Melbourne on June 7th.
