Veteran Story: Curtis Ford (1888-1919) was born at Southport to Arthur Ford and Julia Sandy. When he first enlisted in August 1915 aged 27 years, he named his eldest sister Lena Bostock (nee Ford) as his next-of-kin. He was declared AWOL after overstaying leave and arrested, but given another opportunity to sign up. Ford contracted pneumonia while in training at Rifle Range Camp, Enoggera but embarked for overseas in April 1916, but on arrival in Egypt he was admitted to No. 2 Australian General Hospital, Alexandria, with bronchitis and later diagnosed with suspected tuberculosis. Ford was medically discharged from the Army and returned to Australia late that year. He later succumbed to the influenza epidemic in 1919, and died in June 1919, he is buried at Gayndah Cemetery.
