Herbert Emrys Williams (SN 1068) was born in Ballarat but enlisted in Seymour in June 1915. The 32 year old, unmarried labourer embarked from Melbourne on the Berrima only a few days later. He spent the first year of his service at Gallipoli with the 22nd Battalion before being posted to France with the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column in November 1916. Six months later he joined the 5th Field Artillery Brigade as a gunner where he served until the end of the war. Unlike many of his peers, he appears to have survived the war relatively unscathed, a brief bout of trench fever his only recorded hospitalisation during nearly four years of service. He returned to Australia on the City of Poona, disembarking at Melbourne in May 1919.