War service: Egypt, Western Front

Transferred to No 1 Company, Army Service Corps, 2 December 1915.

Admitted to 15th General Hospital, Alexandria, 27 December 1915 (scabies); rejoined unit, 12 January 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 25 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 1 April 1916.

Admitted to No 2 Stationary Hospital, Abbeville, 3 April 1916 (coryza); discharged, 11 April 1916 (catarrh), and admitted to 2nd Infantry Base Depot, Etaples, 12 April 1916.

Proceeded to join 1st Australian Divisional Train, 7 June 1916.

Detached to 1st Division Headquarters, 10 July 1916; rejoined unit from detachment, 2 August 1916.

Temporarily detached to Trench Mortar Battery, 22 August 1916.

Admitted to hospital, 8 January 1917; rejoined unit, 27 January 1917 (no further details recorded).

Rejoined unit from detachment to Trench Mortar Battery, 27 May 1917.

Detached to 1st Trench Mortar Battery, 20 June 1917; rejoined unit from detachment, 7 July 1917.

On leave to United Kingdom, 8 August 1917; rejoined unit from leave, 20 August 1917.

Temporarily attached to No 4 Company, Army Service Corps; rejoined unit from detachment, 1 October 1917.

Detached to 3rd Field Company Engineers for temporary duty, 10 October 1917; rejoined unit, Belgium, 4 November 1917.

Detached to Commander Royal Engineers, 1st Division Engineers, Headquarters, Belgium, 10 November 1917.

Admitted to 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, 13 July 1918 (injured right hand: accidental); transferred to 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 14 July 1918; to 54th General Hospital, 15 July 1918; to England, 18 July 1918, and admitted to Princess Christian Military Hospital, Surrey (fractured metacarpal bones, right hand: severe). Transferred to No 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, 24 July 1918; discharged on furlough, 20 August 1918, to report to No 3 Command Depot, Hurdcott, 3 September 1918.

Marched out to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 9 September 1918.

Marched out to No 1 Command Depot, Sutton Veny, 9 October 1918; to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 25 October 1918.

Commenced return to Australia on board HT 'Suevic', 20 November 1918; disembarked Melbourne, 5 January 1919; discharged (medically unfit), 26 February 1919.