11/08/1915- Completed Application for Enlistment & Preliminary Medical Examination Busselton WA
25/08/1915- To 25 Depot Blackboy Hill WA as Private
14/09/1915- To ” C ” Company No. 2 Depot Battalion Blackboy Hill
16/10/1915- To 12th Reinforcements 16th Battalion Blackboy Hill
22/12/1915- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Ajana ” bound for Egypt
15/01/1916- Disembarked Alexandria ex Australia to Overseas Training Base
9/03/1916- Allotted to 48th Battalion in the field Zeitoun/Tel-el-Kebir Egypt
2/06/1916- Embarked Alexandria with British Expeditionary Forces bound for Marseilles France
9/06/1916- Disembarked Marseilles
6/08/1916- Reported as Wounded in Action Pozieres France
25/10/1916- Reported to be Wounded in Action & Missing in Action France
4/05/1917- Court of Enquiry found soldier to have been Killed in Action Pozieres France.

REPORT OF SOLDIER’S DEATH

Informant – Dedmin, G, 4594, 48th Battalion , ” A ” Company – ” Witness says the Battalion was between Thiepval & Mouquet Farm on 6 August, 1916, and during a charge, a shell exploded in No Man’s Land , blowing soldier to pieces. It would be impossible to bury his body. Witness knew him well, and was in the same Company. Description – Height 5 feet 8 inches. Dark Complexion. Well built “.

SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED

British War Medal – No. 27528

Victory Medal – No. 27350

Memorial Plaque/Scroll – No. 324055.

MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

Busselton War Memorial WA

Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT – Panel No. 147

Villers-Brettoneux Memorial France.