John Thomas Moodie (SN 452) born at Ballarat, was a 24 year old carpenter when he enlisted in Melbourne on August 19th 1914. Posted to the 4th Light Horse Regiment, he embarked from Melbourne on October 19th aboard the Wiltshire. After a period of training in Egypt, he saw action at Gallipoli where he suffered a gunshot wound to his shoulder in September 1915. He was evacuated to hospital in Egypt and rejoined his unit in January 1916 upon its return from Gallipoli. Aside from some minor illnesses, he served the remainder of the war in Egypt without major incident. In June 1917 he was commissioned at the rank of Lieutenant then in July 1918 he married Lilian Naughton at Alexandra, Egypt. He was then granted ‘special 1914 leave’ and returned to Australia aboard the Karmala, disembarked at Melbourne on February 15th 1919 and was discharged on April 16th.

His brothers Henry and James also served in the AIF and are honoured with trees in the Avenue.