AtheI Ludgater Stark (SN 133) was born in Ballarat where he was employed as a commercial traveller at the time of his enlistment in the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force on November 4th 1914. He joined the 3rd Battalion and embarked from Sydney in January 1915. This force was raised to capture German New Guinea. He was 39 years old and unmarried. After the AN & MEF captured New Guinea and set up the Australian civil administration, it returned to Australia, and the members were discharged. Private Stark had contracted malaria and was treated in Australia before his discharge on December 22nd 1915. His malaria kept recurring and the Government accepted responsibility for his ongoing treatment. He died of malaria on 25th January 1918 and is buried in the Ballarat New Cemetery.