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War service: Egypt

Admitted to 1st Dermatological Hospital, Abbassia, 28 February 1916 (venereal); discharged to rejoin unit, 21 March 1916; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 21 days.

Marched out to Details Camp, 9 October 1916.

Marched out to Anzac Sick Quarters, 1 November 1916.

Detached to Australian Army Medical Corps, 6 January 1917, and attached for medical training to 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia, 16 January 1917. Joined Details Camp from attachment to 14th Australian General Hospital, 22 February 1917. Transferred to 14th Australian General Hospital, 28 February 1917; taken on strength, 20 April 1917.

Tried by Field General Court Martial, Cairo, 30 April 1917, on charge of disgraceful conduct of an indecent sort, in that he at Abbassia on the 18th April 1917, between the hours of 8 pm and 9 pm committed an act of indecency with an Egyptian boy named ---, by allowing his penis to be placed in the mouth of the said ---. Pleaded Not Guilty. Found Guilty, with the exception that the Court find [sic] that the accused did not actually allow his penis to be placed in the mouth of the Egyptian boy ---: awarded 90 days Field Punishment No 2.

Taken to Field Punishment Compound, Abbassia, 4 May 1917; rejoined unit from Punishment Compound on expiry of sentence, 28 July 1917.

Taken on strength, 4th Light Horse Training Regiment, 7 August 1917.

Appointed Temporary Corporal (Cook), Australian Army Medical Corps Training Unit, 25 September 1917. Detached to School of Cookery, Alexandria, 25 November 1917; rejoined unit, 18 December 1917.

Reverted to rank of Trooper, 28 January 1918.

Marched into Rest Camp, Port Said, 22 February 1918; rejoined unit from Rest Camp, 10 April 1918.

Found guilty, 15 April 1919, of (1) being absent without leave from about 1500, 13 April, until arrested at 1720, 13 April 1919; (2) being absent from duty, 13 April 1919: awarded 14 days' confined to barracks.

Joined Australian Army Medical Corps Details, 16 April 1918; marched out to 14th Australian General Hospital, 18 April 1919.

Admitted to 14th Australian General Hospital, 17 April 1919 (pleurisy); transferred to Port Said Rest Camp, 15 May 1919, awaiting return to Australia.

Commenced return to Australia from Suez on board HT 'Dunluce Castle', 17 July 1919; disembarked Fremantle, 17 August 1919; discharged, Perth, 17 October 1919.