Studio portrait of 5005 Private (Pte) Mark Gray, 32nd Battalion. A grazier from Littlehampton, ...

Studio portrait of 5005 Private (Pte) Mark Gray, 32nd Battalion. A grazier from Littlehampton, South Australia, prior to enlistment in the 13th Reinforcements of the 27th Battalion he embarked from Adelaide on 24 June 1916 aboard HMAT Bulla for Plymouth, England. Following training in England he proceeded to France and was transferred to the 32nd Battalion on 15 October 1916. Five days later he was appointed Lance Corporal. He was killed in action near Albert, France, on 28 October 1916, aged 29 years. He has no known grave and he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. His youngest brother, 5364 Pte Frederick Gray, 28th Battalion, died of bronchopneumonia in France on 8 March 1917 and is buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. He was aged 22 years. His younger brother, 3468 Pte William Gray enlisted from Perth in the 16th Battalion and embarked for Egypt in November 1915 where he was hospitalised for six months with pleuro pneumonia before returning to Australia for discharge, medically unfit, on 29 September 1916.