Identity disc : Lance Sergeant G M Fish, 2 Field Ambulance, AIF

Circular aluminium identity disc impressed on one side '99 FISH G. M. 2 F. AMB. P'.

Worn by 99 Staff Sergeant George Melrose Fish of 2 Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC). Fish was born in North Fitzroy, VIC in 1891 and worked as a salesman with Felton Grimwade & Co, a wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemist. He enlisted in the AAMC on 19 August 1914. Fish served on Gallipoli from 28 April 1915 and later went on to France. On 1 August 1916 he died as a result of wounds to his leg. He was buried in France at Puchevillers British Cemetery. Fish served in 2 Fld Amb alongside his brother Private Charles Vivian Fish who also died of wounds, in April 1918. This pattern of identity disc was worn until the end of the Gallipoli campaign. In 1916 it was replaced by a pair of discs made of composite fibre.