Negative - Private James Batson; Victoria; Prior to Embarkation; World War I; 1916; Photograph depicts Private James Batson; service no. 6778; an unmarried farmer from Nhill who enlisted on 25 August 1916; aged 30. He spent many months based at the Royal Park then Ascot Vale camps in Melbourne; including a time in medical isolation due to bout of mumps; before he embarked on 11 May 1917. He served in France from November 1917; after after the war's end was diagnosed with scabies