Heinrich "Henry" Patrick Brandenburg (SN 3235) required the consent of his mother, Delia, to enlist on June 26th 1915. He was a 20 year old labourer from Eastwood Street in East Ballarat. He embarked on October 11th on the Nestor and served in France, first with the 58th Battalion then later with the 57th. He was wounded in action on July 16th 1916 and spent nine weeks in hospital recovering from shell shock, but his actions prompted the following recommendation:-’At Petillon on the night of 15th July 1916 this NCO went out under heavy shell fire, without first being ordered to do so, and mended breaks in the telephone cable from Company Headquarters to Brigade Headquarters caused by shell fire. The bombardment again broke the wires later, and rather than allow another, younger, signaller undertake this hazardous duty, he again went out at great personal risk to his life and successfully located and mended the break. ’ For this he was awarded the Military Medal. In September 1917 he was again wounded in action and this time was hospitalised for 10 days suffering from ‘contusion – body ’. In March 1918 he was admitted to hospital suffering from appendicitis. While awaiting his return to Australia, on December 26th 1918 he married Trixie Hunt at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at Derby. He left England in January 1919 on the Delta and disembarked at Melbourne on March 10th.

His brother Theodore also served in the AIF and is honoured with a tree in the Avenue.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as H.P. Brandeburg.