War service: Western Front

Embarked Fremantle, 6 June 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 21 July 1916.

Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 28 Juyly 1916 (synovitis); discharged, 29 August 1916.

Proceeded overseas to France, 25 November 1916.

Admitted to Divisional Rest Station, 7 January 1917 (diarrhoea); discharged to duty, 14 January 1917.

Detached to Railway Construction Party, 16 February 1917; rejoined Bn same day.

Wounded in action, 27 June 1918, remaining at duty.

Wounded in action (second occasion), 4 July 1918 (gun shot wound, scalp), and admitted to 47th Casualty Clearing Station; transferred to Ambulance Train, 4 July 1918, and admitted to 1st Australian General Hospital, Rouen, 5 July 1918; to No 2 Convalescent Depot, Rouen, 26 July 1918; to Base Depot, Rouen, 31 August 1918; rejoined Bn, in the field, 27 September 1918.

On leave to United Kingdom, 30 October 1918; rejoined Bn from leave, 17 November 1918.

Marched out to England for return to Australia, 7 April 1919.

Married Thirza Nancy GARDINER, spinster, aged 19, The Register Office, Camberwell, London, 23 April 1919.

Found guilty, No 3 Group, Codford, 6 May 1919, of being absent without leave from midnight, 3 May, to 1600, 5 May 1919: admonished, and forfeited 2 days' pay.

Granted indefinite leave, 23 July 1919.

Commenced return to Australia with wife on board HT 'Berrima', 6 September 1919; discharged (termination of period of enlistment), Perth, 10 December 1919.