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Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 5 April 1915.

Promoted Staff Sergeant, 7 April 1915; Lance Sergeant, 1 May 1915.

Admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance, 10 June 1915 (diarrhoea), and transferred same day to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, and thence to Fleet Sweeper HMS 'Clacton'; to HMS 'Devonshire', 19 June 1915; to No 2 Stationary Hospital, and then transferred same day to 24th Casualty Clearing Station, Mudros, 21 June 1915 (debility and diarrhoea); transferred by HMS 'Neuralia' to Alexandria, and admitted to No 1 Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 9 July 1915; discharged to duty, 24 July 1915. Admitted to Convalescent Hospital, Helouan, 30 July 1915 (diabetus and nervous debility); transferred to Base Details, Zeitoun, 21 August 1915; rejoined Bn at Gallipoli, 3 September 1915.

Remained at Anzac on Instructional Staff, 12 September 1915.

Appointed Temporary Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 3 November 1915; promoted CQMS, 17 November 1915.

Admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance, 12 December 1915 (dysentery); transferred to Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 12 December 1915; to No 1 Australian General Hospital, Cairo, 15 December 1915; to Ras el Tin Convalescent Home, 16 January 1916; rejoined Bn, Tel el Kebir, 10 February 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 23 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 30 March 1916.

Wounded in action, 26 July 1916 (gun shot wound, left arm and right leg), and admitted to 1st Australian Field Ambulance; transferred same day to 44th Casualty Clearing Station; to No 1 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 27 July 1916; to England, 4 August 1916, and admitted to 5th Southern General Hospital, Portsmouth, 6 August 1916 (wound: slight); discharged on furlough, 5 September 1916; marched in to No 1 Command Depot, 27 September 1916.

On Command at No 2 Cadet Bn, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 5 May 1917; appointed 2nd Lieutenant, 1 September 1917.

Taken on strength, 2nd Bn, in the field in France, 25 September 1917.

Admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance, 12 December 1917 (gonnorrhoea); transferred to 39th General Hospital, Havre, 14 December 1917; discharged, 13 April 1917; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 123 days. Rejoined Bn, 20 April 1918.

Promoted Lieutenant, 1 June 1918.

Detached to School of Instruction, 14 June 1918; rejoined unit, 5 July 1918.

Marched out for return to Australia (transport duty), 14 September 1918.

Commenced return to Australia from Taranto, Italy, on board HT 'Kasir a Hind', 24 September 1918; transshipped at Suez to HT 'Devon'; embarked, 13 October 1918; disembarked Melbourne, 23 November 1918, and proceeded to New Zealand; appointment terminated (discharged), 24 February 1919.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Re-enlisted, 3 March 1919, and embarked Sydney on board SS 'Mawatti', 11 March 1919, as Lieutenant, Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force, Reinforcement, March 1915 to May 1919.