Next of kin plaque: Lance Corporal Edward Bathurst Beavis, 4th 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 'EDWARD BATHURST BEAVIS'.

Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, Edward Bathurst Beavis was employed as a photographer when he enlisted in the AIF on 11 January 1915. After initial training he was posted a private, service number 1717, to the 4th Reinforcements to 4th Battalion. The unit embarked from Sydney on 17 March, aboard HMAT A9 Shropshire. Beavis was promoted lance corporal at sea on 30 March.

After a further short period of training in Egypt Beavis joined his battalion at MacLaurin's Hill, Gallipoli on 31 May. He was killed at Lone Pine on 6 August. He was 22. An eyewitness stated: 'Acting Cpl (corporal) in charge of squad of bombers in 1st line of attack on Lone Pine. Killed shortly after entering the Turk's 1st line trench'. Beavis was initially buried at Brown's Dip. His body was reinterred in the Lone Pine Cemetery in 1923.

Two of Beavis's brothers also served: Captain Horace Weston, Beavis, 1st Battalion, AIF, who was able to visit his brother's grave at Gallipoli in 1928; and Major (later Major General) Leslie Ellis Beavis, DSO, a Duntroon graduate who served in the artillery. Immediately after the First World War he undertook ordnance training at Woolwich in London and personally collected his brother's next of kin plaque from the factory at the arsenal there. He later sent the plaque to Australia using the diplomatic bag at Australia House. Army Base Records in Melbourne then forwarded it to his widowed mother, Emma Beavis, in March 1922.