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Military Medal

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 20 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 28 March 1916.

Attached for temporary duty to 15th Battery, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, 3 July 1916; rejoined unit, 30 July 1916.

Found guilty, 27 August 1916, of being absent from 9.30 pm, 21 August, until found in trenches at 8 am with 18th Bn, 27 August 1916: awarded 14 days' Field Punishment No 2; forfeited a total of 18 days' pay.

Transferred to 18th Bn, 19 September 1916, and reverted to rank of Private.

Wounded in action, and admitted to 38th Casualty Clearing Station, 9 November 1916 (gun shot wound, head: severe); transferred to 9th General Hospital, Rouen, 10 November 1916; to England, 14 November 1916, and admitted to VAD Hospital, Cheltenham, 15 November 1916; transferred to 3rd [Australian Auxiliary?] Hospital, 16 April 1917; marched in to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, from furlough, 6 July 1917.

Proceeded overseas to France, 4 August 1917; rejoined Bn,, 21 August 1917.

Admitted to 7th Australian Field Ambulance, 8 October 1917 (trench feet); discharged to duty, 16 October 1917; rejoined Bn, in the field, 17 October 1917.

Awarded Military Medal, 14 October 1917.

Admitted to 6th Australian Field Ambulance, 20 February 1918 (bronchitis); discharged to duty, 24 February 1918.

Admitted to 5th Australian Field Ambulance, 8 March 1918 (bronchitis), and transferred to 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, and then by Ambulance Train No 36 to 55th General Hospital, Boulogne, 11 March 1918; to England, 13 March 1918, and admitted to Southwark Hospital; to 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, 17 April 1918; discharged to No 4 Command Depot, Hurdcott, 22 April 1918.

Admitted to 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, 27 May 1918 (tachycardia); discharged to No 3 Command Depot, 18 June 1916.

Marched in to Overseas Training Brigade, Longbridge Deverill, 16 July 1918.

Admitted to Cheltenham VAD Hospital, 30 July 1918 (not yet diagnosed); discharged to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 16 October 1918.

Commenced return to Australia, 8 November 1918; disembarked Melbourne, 29 December 1918, for onward travel to Sydney; discharged (medically unfit: renal calculeis), Sydney, 17 October 1919.