5th Battalion
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Stanley Cochrane (SN 203) born in Ballarat, was a married 29 year old motorman when he enlisted in Melbourne on August 17th1914. Assigned to the 5th Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Orvieto on October 21st and sailed to Egypt. He suffered a severe back wound at the Gallipoli landing in April 1915 and was returned to Australia aboard the Hororata. He disembarked at Melbourne on August 25th1915 and was discharged on March 13th1916 ‘medically unfit, injury to back’.
