Group portrait of 32nd Battalion members, from left to right, 3164 Corporal (Cpl) Allen Jarrett, ...

Group portrait of 32nd Battalion members, from left to right, 3164 Corporal (Cpl) Allen Jarrett, 5298 Sergeant (Sgt) Frank Murray Moore and 309 Sgt Evan Rees. Sgt Rees embarked from Adelaide in November 1915 with the 1st Reinforcements of the 32nd Battalion and served throughout the war returning to Australia for discharge in July 1919. Sgt Moore embarked from Melbourne in January 1916 with the 13th Reinforcements of the 2nd Divisional Signals Company, transferred to the 32nd Battalion in August 1917 and returned to Australia for discharge in August 1919. Cpl Jarrett, a wheelwright from Naracoorte, South Australia, embarked for Egypt with his older brother 3165 Private (Pte) Thomas Charles Bertram Jarret, from Adelaide aboard HMAT Medic with the 7th Reinforcements of the 27th Battalion. In early April 1916 they were both transferred to the 32nd Battalion which relocated to the Western Front, France, in June 1916. Pte Thomas Jarrett was wounded in action on two occasions, the first with shell shock during the Battle of Fromelles on 19 July 1916 and then due to gassing in May 1918. On both occasions he was evacuated to England for treatment and recuperation; he was still recovering from the gas attack at the end of the war and returned to Australia for discharge in October 1919. Pte Allan Jarrett was hospitalised in France due to illness after the Battle of Fromelles and rejoined his unit at Trones Wood in February 1917. He was promoted to Temporary Corporal in August 1917. Cpl Jarrett was killed in action near Corbie, France, on 17 April 1918 and is buried in the Crucifix Corner Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux. He was aged 23 years.