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War service: Western Front

Embarked Melbourne, 17 January 1917; admitted to Ship's Hospital, 28 March 1917; discharged, 19 March 1917; disembarked Devonport, England, 27 March 1917; marched into Australian Machine Gun Training Depot, Belton Park, 28 March 1917.

Admitted to No 1 Australian Dermatological Hospital, Bulford, 11 October 1917 (venereal disease); discharged, 23 October 1917, and marched into Convalescent Training Depot, Parkhouse, the same day; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 13 days.

Marched out of Convalescent Training Depot, 2 January 1918; marched into Australian Machine Gun Training Depot, Grantham, 4 January 1918.

Proceeded overseas to France, 9 April 1918; marched into Machine Gun Corps Base Depot, Camiers, 9 April 1918.

Proceeded to unit, 14 April 1918; taken on strength of 1st Machine Gun Bn, 20 April 1918.

Wounded in action, 5 July 1918; admitted to No 3 Australian Field Ambulance, 5 July 1918 (shrapnel wound, scalp, and gassed); transferred to No 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 5 July 1918; to No 63 Ambulance Train, 6 July 1918; to No 53 General Hospital, Boulogne, 6 July 1918; to No 1 Convalescent Depot, Boulogne, 14 July 1918; to No 1 Australian Convalescent Depot, Le Havre, 26 July 1918; marched into Australian General Base Depot, Le Havre, 27 August 1918.

Marched out of Australian General Base Depot, 30 August 1918; marched into Machine Gun Base Depot, Camiers, 1 September 1918.

Proceeded to unit, 8 September 1918; rejoined 1st Machine Gun Bn, 12 September 1918.

Admitted to No 1 Australian Field Ambulance, 3 November 1918 (conjunctivitis); transferred to No 3 Australian General Hospital, Abbeville, no date stated; to No 3 General Hospital, Le Treport, 6 November 1918; discharged, 11 November 1918, and marched into Machine Gun Base Depot, Camiers, 11 November 1918.

Proceeded to unit, Camiers, 21 November 1918; rejoined unit, 23 November 1918.

Proceeded to England for return to Australia, 10 April 1919; marched into No 1 Group, England, 18 April 1919.

Commenced return to Australia on board HT 'Port Darwin', 12 June 1919; disembarked Melbourne, 27 July 1919; discharged Sydney (termination of period of enlistment), 13 September 1919.