Edward Percy Martin was a clerk living at 330 Ferrars street, Albert park. He enlisted into the army on the 20th of April, 1915. At the time of enlistment he was 5 feet and 4 and a quarter inches tall, weighed 10 stones and 31 pounds, had blue eyes and brown hair. He claimed to be 39 and a half years old when enlisting when he was actually in his mid 40's. He left Australia on the 7th of March, 1916 and was sent to Egypt where he was transferred to the 60th battalion.
On the 12th of May Edward was sent to No.3 auxiliary Hospital in Heliopolis because of Kidney trouble. He was then transferred to No.1 Auxiliary Hospital on the 23rd of June, 1916, where he was invalided to Australia on the 10th of July for being physically unfit. He embarked on the H.T. Clan McGillivray from the Suez Canal and arrived in Melbourne around the 9th of August, 1916.
In 1920 he married Violet May Mathes and moved to Heyfield where he worked as a Chainman before he died in 1946 at Bairnsdale.