Portrait of 1346 (later 1232) Private (Pte) William John Gray, 5th Battalion from Clifton Hill, ...

Portrait of 1346 (later 1232) Private (Pte) William John Gray, 5th Battalion from Clifton Hill, Victoria. A 26 year old jockey prior to enlisting on 2 November 1914, he embarked for overseas with the 2nd Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Clan MacGillivray (A46) on 2 February 1915. After further training in Egypt, he embarked from Alexandria on 5 April to join the Gallipoli Campaign. However, he was admitted to hospital on Lemnos Island on 20 April with rheumatic fever, transferred to a hospital ship five days later and then sent to a hospital in Heliopolis, Cairo where he died of tubercular meningitis on 30 April 1915. Pte Gray is buried in the Cairo War Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt.