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Disembarked in Australia from HMAT 'Port Lincoln', 2 September 1915 (venereal disease, gonorrhoea).

Declared a deserter and struck off strength, 20 March 1916.

Re-enlisted, 28 October 1915, as 1316 Pte Reginald BOYLAND [true name]; embarked Sydney, 30 November 1915 on board HMAT A23 'Suffolk', 11th Light Horse Regiment, 7th Reinforcements.

Tried by District Court Martial, 30 December 1915, for disobeying a lawful command of a Senior Officer in that on board HMAT 'Osterley' he refused to be vaccinated: admonished.

Returned to Australia on board HT 'Nestor'; disembarked Melbourne, 13 March 1916 (chronic bronchitis); discharged, Brisbane (medically unfit), 1 April 1916.

Re-enlisted, 20 February 1917; embarked Sydney, 8 May 1918, on board RMS 'Osterley', as 51003 Private, New South Wales Reinforcement 1.

Found guilty, on board 'Osterley', Newport, USA, 29 June 1918, of (1) absent without leave from 9.30 pm, 17 June, to 7 pm, 27 June 1918; (2) when in arrest escaping: awarded 28 days' detention, and forfeited a total of 39 days' pay.

Disembarked Liverpool, England, 10 July 1918.

Marched out to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 9 November 1918.

Found guilty, 25 November 1918, of being absent without leave from his ward from 2200, 22 November, till 0845, 23 November 1918: awarded 7 days confined to barracks and forfeited 1 day's pay.

Admitted to hospital, 26 November 1918; marched in to No 2 Command Depot from hospital, 27 November 1918.

Commenced return to Australia on board HT 'Somali', 10 December 1918 (minersphthysis); disembarked Sydney, 10 February 1919; discharged (medically unfit), Sydney, 26 March 1919.