Philip Owen Ayton was working on the Sydney tramways when the call to join the fight against Germany came. Keen for action he found himself in the First Field Company Engineers in the First Division of the Australian Imperial Forces. Shipped to Egypt Ayton soon after took part in the Gallipoli landing. I would not have missed this for anything he wrote to a friend. Badly injured he was sent to England to convalesce and from there joined the campaign in France where he saw out the war. From the s