8th Infantry Battalion
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Samuel Alfred Ernest Dean (SN 33) was born in Ballarat where he was a 23 year old butcher amongst the earliest enlistees on August 17th 1914. On October 19th he embarked aboard the Benalla with the 8th Infantry Battalion and sailed to Egypt. Illnesses prevented him from taking part in the Gallipoli landing then necessitated his return to Australia. He returned aboard the Wiltshire , spending time on duty at Broadmeadows before being discharged on May 15th 1915.
