Private Arthur Montague Alchin (2027, 35th Battalion) was a mail driver from Gunning, NSW. Arthur was lying on a stretcher after being wounded during the battle of Passchendaele on 12 October 1917 when a shell exploded nearby killing him and several other wounded soldiers. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. Documents in Arthur’s Red Cross file reveal that he was “well liked by his chums” and he “had absolutely no fear”. His mother later wrote that he was 17 years 11 months at the time of his death. Arthur’s uncle, Private Frank Henry Borman, was killed at Polygon Wood.