Roger Fair was a grocer before enlisting in the Army on 16 December, 1914, at age twenty-five. He served at Gallipoli for several months in 1915 (14th Batt., 1st A. I. F. Reg. No. 1738) until illness saw him returned to Australia on the hospital ship 'Kanowna'. After the war he worked at radio stations in Bendigo and Brisbane, and later as a Public Relations Consultant in Brisbane.
