 Following his discharge , Statton settled in Fitzgerald , Tasmania , where he gained employment in the timber industry . True to her word that she would leave him if he went off to war , Statton 's wife divorced him on 1 October 1920 . Five years later , on 21 December 1925 , he married Eliza Grace Hudson ( née Parker ) at the Registrar General 's Office , Hobart . In 1934 , severe bushfires broke out in the Derwent Valley , and Statton took a prominent role in rescue work aiding families isolated by the fire . 
