Tag 22nd Battalion
When Kenneth Laird enlisted he was 26 and newly married to Mary Laird. Prior to enlisting, he was a farmer at Calivil who was well-known as a talented footballer for the Calivil Football Club and a long-distance runner. He was the fourth son of Donald and Isabell. His late father, Donald Craig Laird had been an East Loddon Shire councillor.
Robert James Dobbie enlisted in 1918, but the Armistice Peace treaty was signed before he ever saw action.
Honour roll location: Pillar 5D Resources: ‘Three brothers at the front‘, Bendigonian, 17th August 1916, p. 2