Next of kin plaque : Private William Boyden Fill, 15th Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'WILLIAM BOYDEN FILL'. A checker's mark, '2', is impressed behind the lion's rear left paw.

Born in Clermont, Queensland, William Boyden Fill was based at Rockhampton but employed as a bore driller near Longreach when he enlisted in the AIF there on 10 November 1916. After initial training in Brisbane he was posted a private, service number 7232, to the 24th Reinforcements for 15th Battalion. He sailed for overseas service from Sydney on 24 January 1917, aboard HMAT A33 Ayrshire.

Fill arrived in England at the beginning of April and after further training at Codford joined his battalion in Belgium on 27 July. He contracted trench fever on 9 August, while the battalion was in support at Ploegsteert on Messines Ridge and was evacuated to No. 1 Red Cross Hospital at Le Touquet. There his condition worsened and he was moved to England, to the 16th Canadian General Hospital at Orpington in Kent. Fill died there from pneumonia and trench fever on 4 October 1917, aged 22. He is buried in the Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.

This commemorative plaque was sent to his widowed mother, Margaret (Maggie) Fill, in September 1922.