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War service: Western Front

Disembarked Marseilles, France, 5 May 1916, and entrained for Hazebrouck; detrained Hazebrouck, 8 May 1916.

Attached to 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company, 12 January 1917; rejoined unit from attachment, 4 February 1917.

Admitted to 47th Divisional Rest Station, 28 February 1917 (bronchitis); transferred to 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, 3 March 1917; to Base by Ambulance Train No 10, 5 March 1917; to 8th Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, 6 March 1917; rejoined unit, 12 April 1917.

Admitted to 2/1 East Lancashire Field Ambulance, 20 August 1917 (pyrexia, unknown origin); transferred to 15 Corps MDS, 20 August 1917; to 15 Corps Sick Station, 22 August 1917; discharged to duty, 29 August 1917; rejoined unit, 6 September 1917.

Found guilty, 25 July 1918, of while on leave in the united Kingdom, was ordered to report to RTO, Victoria Station, at 6 am, 19 July 1918, and failed to do so, and remained absent until 6 am, 22 July 1918: awarded 20 days’ Field Punishment No 2, and forfeited a total of 24 days’ pay.

Marched out for return to Australia, 30 March 1919; marched in to No 2 Command Depot, 9 April 1919.

Commenced return to Australia from Devonport on board HT ‘Rio Negro’, 29 May 1919; admitted to ship’s hospital at sea, 1 June 1919; discharged to duty, 20 July 1919; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 50 days; disembarked Melbourne, 18 July 1919; discharged, Melbourne, 13 September 1919.