A reinforcement group of the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), September 1915. Back row from ...

A reinforcement group of the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), September 1915. Back row from left: 5536 Private (Pte) Norman James Morrison, 10th Reinforcements, 1st Field Ambulance, of Summer Hill, New South Wales (NSW); 5577 Pte George Henderson, 10th Reinforcements, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, of Brandon, Canada; 5596 Pte Norman Grey Rouvray, 10th Reinforcements, 2nd Australian General Hospital, of St Kilda, Victoria (Vic); 5597 Pte Alan Kenneth Mackenzie, 10th Reinforcements, 2nd Australian General Hospital, of Manning River, NSW; 5534 Eric John Saxby, 10th Reinforcements, 1st Field Ambulance, of Stanmore, NSW; 5533 Kenneth Knowlton Saxby, 10th Reinforcements, 1st Field Ambulance, of Stanmore, NSW. Second row from left: 5532 Pte Sydney James Manktelow, 1st Field Ambulance, of Waverley, NSW; 5623 Pte Ernest Albert Snashall, 5th Reinforcements, 5th Field Ambulance, of Ashfield, NSW; 5525 Pte Thomas Griffiths, 5th Reinforcements, 5th Field Ambulance, of Roseville, NSW; 5621 Pte Leo O'Brien, 5th Reinforcements, 5th Field Ambulance, of Casino, NSW; 5622 Pte Frederick Portus, 5th Reinforcements, 5th Field Ambulance, of Leura, NSW; 5578 Pte William Charles Malcolm, 10th Reinforcements, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, of Surrey Hills, VIC. Front fow from left: 5598 Pte Cecil Ricketts, 10th Reinforcements, 2nd Australian General Hospital, of Darlinghurst, NSW; 7659 Pte George Whitford, Special Reinforcement, 1st Australian General Hospital, of St Kilda, VIC; 11892 Acting Sergeant Benjamin Henry Sutherland, 9th Field Ambulance, of Marrickville, NSW; 5624 Pte Douglas Vernon Saddington, 5th Reinforcements, 5th Field Ambulance, of Wahroona, NSW; 5535 Pte Horace William Knight, 10th Reinforcements, 1st Field Ambulance, of Newtown, NSW. Seated is 5576 Pte Hector Charles Corner, 10th Reinforcements, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, of Bredalbane, NSW. Pte Kenneth Saxby studied Engineering at Sydney University for one term before enlisting at the age of 18, having served three years in the Sydney University Scouts and one year in the Citizen Forces. A pacificst by principle, he transferred to the 3rd Battalion in January 1917 to be a stretcher bearer where he would save more lives. Pte Kenneth Saxby was killed in action on the 20 September 1917 at Menin Road, and is buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery in Belgium. Pte Eric Saxby, brother to Kenneth Saxby, was awarded the DCM for digging out several men buried by German artillery and continually working under enemy fire at Pozieres on 24 July 1916 . Snashall was killed in action near Zillebeke, Belgium on 18 September 1917 and was posthumously awarded the Military Medal (MM), and is buried at Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Belgium. Acting Sergeant Sutherland was killed during an attack on Hamburg House near Zonnebeke station on the morning of 10 October 1917, and is buried at Poelcapelle British Cemetery, Belgium. Pte Portus was killed in action in the Noreuill Valley near Arras on the 23 April 1917, and is buried at Vaulx Hill Cemetery.

• The hospital troopship HMAT Warilda (A69), which was taken over by the Admiralty in June 1916 and ...