Group portrait of eight members of 32nd Battalion taken in France. Identified, from left to ...

Group portrait of eight members of 32nd Battalion taken in France. Identified, from left to right: back row: 3791 Private (Pte) Hubert Thomas Gubbins Dunn, 3525 Pte George William Castle, 2599 Pte John Douglas. Middle row: 4252 Pte George Samuel Burns MM, 3 Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Stuart Hamilton Ayliffe, 3658 Pte Arthur Edwin Moore. Front row: 3567 Pte Norman Hocking, 3243A Pte Donald Scobie Gordon. Pte Hocking, a labourer from Forest Range, South Australia, and Pte Moore an engine cleaner with the railways from Port Wakefield, South Australia embarked with the 8th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 12 August 1916 aboard HMAT Ballarat (A70) for Plymouth, England. Following training with the 8th Training Battalion, they proceeded to France in mid-January 1917 and joined their unit on the Western Front near Dernancourt. Pte Hocking was killed in action near Messines, Belgium, on 12 December 1917. He was aged 24 years. Pte Moore was wounded in action with shell concussion near Messines, Belgium, and was hospitalised from late March to early June 1918. On 2 July 1918 he was appointed Lance Corporal (L Cpl). L Cpl Moore was killed in action near Bernes, France, on 7 September 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. He was aged 26 years. The other five soldiers survived the war and returned to Australia for discharge on dates from April to October 1919.