Group portrait of six 32nd Battalion members. Back row, left to right: 612 Corporal (Cpl) ...

Group portrait of six 32nd Battalion members. Back row, left to right: 612 Corporal (Cpl) Leonard James Savage DCM; 3537 Sergeant (Sgt) (later Lieutenant) Lloyd Rees Davies; 3593 Sgt Thomas James McGovern MM. Middle row: 495 Sgt Harcourt Wilson Furze DCM; 2952 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO 2) Victor Walter Mossop; 3758 Sgt (later Lt) John Ponton. Front row: 3188 Sgt (later Lt) John Stephen Malone; 412 Sgt Frank Vernon James; 2910 Sgt Eric Douglas Davison. CSM Mossop, a draper from West Hindmarsh, South Australia, enlisted as a Private and embarked from Adelaide with the 6th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Aeneas for Egypt. The battalion relocated to the Western Front, France, during June 1916. He was promoted through the ranks and in June 1917 was appointed Company Sergeant Major. CSM Mossop was wounded in action on 12 October 1917 near Zonnebeke, Belgium, died of these wound three days later in No 2 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station and is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. He was aged 25 years. Sgt Davison, a clerk from Broken Hill, New South Wales, also enlisted as a Private and embarked from Adelaide with the 6th Reinforcements. Pte Davison was promoted to Corporal in April 1917 and then to Sergeant two months later. He served with the 8th Training Battalion in England for nine months and then rejoined his unit near Amiens, France, in July 1918. Sgt Davison was killed in action near Nauroy, France, on 29 September 1918 and is buried in the Bellicourt British Cemetery, France. He was aged 26 years. His brother, 297 Cpl Harry Keith Davison, 27th Battalion, was killed in action near Sailly-le Sec, France, on 11 June 1918. The other seven members served until the end of the war and returned to Australia during 1919.