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War service: Egypt, Western Front

Admitted to Isolation Hospital, Abbassia, 13 October 1915 (venereal disease); date of discharge not recorded.

Admitted to 1st Australian General Hospital, Cairo, 18 December 1915); listed as 'dangerously ill: broncho-pneumonia', 19 December 1915; transferred to Convalescent Depot, Helouan, 15 January 1916; discharged to duty, 10 February 1916, and marched into Overseas Base, Ghezireh.

Rejoined Bn, Serapeum, 11 March 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 25 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 30 March 1916.

Admitted to No 7 Casualty Clearing Station, 29 April 1916; transferred to No 1 Convalescent Depot, Boulogne, 4 May 1916 (venereal disease: gonorrhoea); to No 9 Stationary Hospital, Havre, 6 May 1916; discharged, 28 June 1916; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 53 days.

Admitted to No 18 General Hospital, 30 June 1916; discharged, 1 July 1916; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 2 days.

Rejoined unit, in the field, 3 August 1916.

Admitted to 2nd Field Ambulance, 12 October 1916 (deformed toe); transferred to 8th Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, 16 October 1916; discharged to Base Depot, 19 October 1916.

Admitted to 26th General Hospital, Rouen, 25 October (little amputated); transfererd to England, 6 November 1916, and admitted to 3rd Southern General Hospital, 8 November 1916; transferred to 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, 13 December 1916.

Discharged to No 4 Command Depot, Wareham (date not recorded).

Found guilty, 2 February 1917, of neglecting to obey an NCO: awarded 2 days' Field Punishment No 2.

Admitted to Wareham Military Hospital, 5 March 1917 (scabies); marched in to No 4 Command Depot, Wareham, 13 April 1917.

Transferred to 65th Bn, 10 May 1917.

Admitted to 16th Field Ambulance, 16 May 1`917 (scabies); discharged same day.

Found guilty, Windmill Hill, 9 July 1917, of being absent without leave, 6 am, 4 July, to 9.55 am, 5 July 1917: awarded 6 days' Field Punishment No 2, and forfeited 11 days' pay.

Married Florence Annie RIPPINGTON, spinster, aged 27, SS Mary and John Anglican Church, Cowley, Headington, 9 August 1917.

Appointed Driver, 24 August 1917.

Remustered as Private, 29 September 1917.

Admitted to Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 4 March 1918 (injury to knee).

Marched in to 2nd Training Bn from Farriery School, Romsey, 5 April 1918.

Proceeded overseas to France, 23 April 1918; rejoined 5th Bn, in the field, 6 May 1918.

Wounded in action, 11 August 1918 (gun shot wound, left hand), and admitted to 1st Australian Field Ambulance, and transferred to 55th Casualty Clearing Station; to 9th US General Hospital, Rouen, 13 August 1918; to England, 14 August 1918, and admitted to Kitchener Military Hospital, Brighton, 15 August 1918; transferred to 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, 19 August 1918; discharged on furlough, 29 August 1918, to report to No 4 Command Depot, Hurdcott, 12 September 1918.

Marched out to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 28 September 1918.

Found guilty, Tidworth, 19 November 1918, of being absent without leave from 2359, 16 November, to 1100, 18 November 1918: awarded forfeiture of 3 days' pay; total forfeiture: 5 days' pay.

Marched out to Overseas Training Brigade, Longbridge Deverill, 21 November 1918.

Marched out to 1st Training Brigade, Sutton Veny, 28 February 1919.

Commenced return to Australia from Tilbury on board HT 'Zealandic', 3 July 1919; disembarked (medically unfit: debility), Melbourne, 24 October 1919.