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War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Embarked Melbourne, 22 December 1914.

Found guilty, 13 March 1915, of being drunk on parade: award, fined 10/-.

Admitted to hospital, 5 April 1915 (venereal disease); sailed from Suez, 4 May 1915; disembarked Melbourne, 25 May 1915 (soft sore); sent to Broadmeadows, 1 June 1915.

Embarked Melbourne, 16 July 1915.

Admitted to No 5 Field Ambulance, Gallipoli, 12 October 1915 (diarrhoea).

Sent to Hospital from 8th Bn, Shrapnel Gully, 20 October 1915; admitted to No 1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Anzac, and transferred to Hospital Ship, 20 October 1915 (diarrhoea); to St. Patrick's Hospital, Malta, 27 October 1915; to All Saints' Hospital, Malta, 24 November 1915.

Promoted Lance Corporal, 27 November 1915.

Discharged from hospital and embarked for Egypt, 7 December 1915.

Sent to No 2 Australian General Hospital, Ghezireh, from Overseas' Base, 13 January 1916; admitted to Detention Barracks, Abbassia (venereal disease).

Reduced to the ranks, 6 February 1916.

Discharged to duty from No 1 Australian Dermatological Hospital, 16 March 1916; marched in Overseas Base, Ghezireh, 18 March 1916.

Marched in to A Details, Zeitoun, 27 March 1916.

Taken on strength of 59th Bn, Ferry Post, from 2nd Training Bn, Zeitoun, 3 April 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Posted missing, 19 July 1916.

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1916, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.