HIS father had sailed from China to Australia in search of gold, but it was a young Warrnambool carpenter who made the ultimate sacrifice for his new-found homeland.Private Edward Harold Artso was only 26 when he died of his wounds in the Somme Valley in France, just a few weeks before the end of World War I. Private Artso, who joined the 29th Battalion in February 1916, is one of the few known soldiers of Chinese origin to have enlisted in the south-west.His great-nephew, Ted Artso, who was named after the digger, travelled to Warrnambool from Gippsland to present his ancestor's official death plaque to the RSL Warrnambool sub-branch.Mr Artso donated the artefact to the RSL's recent photographic exhibition which was held to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I. "He was a Warrnambool boy," Mr Artso said of his great-uncle, who died after vicious fighting on the Amiens front. "He was born there (Warrnambool), his father settled there after he originally came from Canton in about 1855." It remains unclear where William Artso prospected for gold but he eventually settled in the Warrnambool area and married a European woman, Martha Hammond. Edward was the second-youngest of 10 siblings and, despite the prevailing sense of animosity among many Europeans towards Chinese immigrants, had a strong sense of patriotism, Mr Artso said.The cabinet-maker now lies in a British cemetery at Vignacourt in France.