George Frederick Joseph Cramp was born in Sydney on 27 November 1894. He worked as a motor mechanic, and was 22 when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 4 December 1916. He embarked from Sydney with reinforcements for the 1st Pioneer Battalion aboard HMAT Anchises on 24 January 1917, but was transferred to the 13th Battalion in September, also serving with the battalion’s band. On 23 December 1918 he married 22-year-old Englishwoman Gladys Smith in Worcestshire, England, before returning home to Australia the following August. After the war he worked as a lift attendant with Australian Mercantile Land and Finance. He enlisted again at the outbreak of the Second World War, and served with the 23rd Reserve Motor Transport Company. Cramp survived the war and died on 15 August 1976.