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War service: Egypt, Western Front

Taken on strength, 7th Bn, Serapeum, 24 February 1916. Admitted to hospital (date not recorded; pneumonia); discharged to duty, 9 March 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 26 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 31 March 1916.

Wounded in action, 1 July 1916 (shell shock), and admitted to 7th Australian Field Ambulance; transferred to 2nd Australian Division Rest Station, 2 July 1916; to 13th Field Ambulance, 4 July 1916; to No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, 8 July 1916; to 3rd Canadian General Hospital, Boulogne, 13 July 1916; to No 1 Convalescent Depot, 20 July 1916; discharged unfit, 21 July 1916; marched out to unit, 2 October 1916.

Admitted to 13th Casualty Clearing Station, 24 October 1916 (wound, left finger), and transferred to Ambulance Train No 2; admitted to 39th Casualty Clearing Station, 24 October 1916 (suspected dysentery); transferred to 4th General Hospital, Camiers, 27 October 1916; to England, 13 November 1916, and admitted to Edmonton Hospital (pyrexia, slight); transferred to 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, 15 November 1916; discharged to No 4 Command Depot, Wareham, 18 November 1916.

Found guilty, 4 January 1917, of being absent without leave from 3 pm, 4 January, to 4.15 pm, 8 January 1917: awarded 7 days' confined to barracks, and forfeited 3 days' pay.

Found guilty, 23 January 1917, of being absent without leave from tattoo, 20 January, to 10 pm, 22 January 1917: awarded 3 days' Field Punishment No 2, and forfeited a total of 6 days' pay.

Proceeded overseas to France, 5 December 1916; rejoined unit, 11 February 1917.

To hospital (batman), 13 February 1917; rejoined unit, 28 February 1917.

On leave to United Kingdom, 3 March 1918; rejoined unit from leave, 21 March 1918.

Detached to 2nd Army Central School, 25 May 1918; rejoined unit, 7 June 1918.

Killed in action, by a bomb dropped from an enemy aircraft during the advance, 9 August 1918.