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War service: Egypt, Palestine

Admitted to 2nd Australian General Hospital, Cairo, 13 December 1915 (injury, hand); discharged to duty, 6 January 1916; rejoined unit, Maadi, 7 January 1916.

Found guilty, 28 January 1916, of being absent from parade without leave from 2.00 pm, to 4.30 pm, 27 January 1916, and from 6.30 am, to 7.30 am, 28 January 1916: awarded 2 days’ confined to barracks; forfeited a total of 2 days’ pay.

Admitted to 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital, Abbassia, 11 February 1916 (venereal disease); discharged to duty, 27 March 1916; taken on strength, 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment, Tel-el-Kebir, 28 March 1916.

Admitted to 2nd Stationary Hospital, 11 April 1916 (hydrocele); discharged to duty, 15 April 1916; rejoined unit, 15 April 1916.

Transferred to 5th Light Horse Regiment, 30 April 1916; taken on strength, 27 June 1916.

Found guilty, 27 June 1916, of (1) drunkenness whilst on active service, (2) striking a non commissioned officer, (3) violently resisting escort, (4) using obscene language: awarded 14 days’ Field Punishment No 2; forfeited a total of 14 days’ pay.

Severely wounded, 5 August 1916 (left buttock); admitted to 26th Casualty Clearing Station, 6 August 1916; transferred to Ambulance Train, 7 August 1916; to 1st Stationary Hospital, Abbassia, 7 August 1916; transferred to 3rd Australian General Hospital, 11 August 1916; to British Red Cross Hospital, Montazah, 19 August 1916; discharged, 11 September 1916; taken on strength, 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment, Moascar, 12 September 1916.

Transferred to 5th Light Horse Regiment, 11 October 1916; rejoined 5th Light Horse Regiment, 13 October 1916.

Instructed to report to Headquarters Training Centre, Moascar, for transfer to infantry, 24 October 1916; taken on strength, 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment, 25 October 1916; marched out to proceed overseas, 2 November 1916; admitted to 42nd Division Base for transfer to England, 3 November 1916.

Embarked Alexandria, 8 November 1916.

Marched into No 1 Convalescent Depot; marched out to Perham Downs, 23 November 1916; granted furlough, 25 November 1916; marched into Perham Downs, 11 December 1916; marched out to Candahar Barracks, 14 December 1916; marched into No 1 Convalescent Depot, Parkhouse, 15 December 1916.

Proceeding overseas for Egypt, 15 December 1916.

Disembarked Alexandria and entrained to Moascar, 30 January 1917; taken on strength, 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment, 31 January 1917; marched into Isolation Camp, Moascar, 4 February 1917.

To School of Instruction, Zeitoun, 16 May 1917; instructed in use of 26th Hotchkiss Gun: qualified as Gunner; rejoined unit 26 May 1917.

Transferred to 5th Light Horse Regiment, 4 July 1917; taken on strength, Um Urgan, 9 July 1917.

Marched out to School of Instruction (cookery), 23 August 1917; rejoined unit, 11 September 1917.

Found guilty, 12 March 1918, of (1) being absent without leave from 11.00 am, to 2.30 pm, 19 March 1918; (2) breaking camp whilst under open arrest from 9.00 pm, 19 March 1918, to 6.50 pm, 20 March 1918: awarded 21 days’ Field Punishment No 2; forfeited 2 days’ pay.

Sick to hospital, 8 April 1918; admitted to 14th Australian General Hospital, 12 April 1918 (hydrocele); transferred to Rest Camp, Port Said, 14 May 1918; to 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment, 22 May 1918.

Admitted to 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital, 3 June 1918 (post operative thickening spermatic cord); discharged to duty, 4 June 1918; rejoined unit, 4 June 1918.

Found guilty, 17 June 1918, of being absent without leave from 2.00 pm, 12 June, to 3.45 pm, 15 June 1918: awarded 14 days’ confined to camp: forfeited 4 days’ pay.

Proceeded to join 5th Light Horse Regiment, 1 July 1918; rejoined unit, 4 July 1918.

To hospital, 11 October 1918; admitted to 34th Clearing Hospital, Jerusalem, 21 October 1918 (dangerously ill, malaria).

Died of disease, 24 October 1918 (pneumonia and malaria).