25/08/1915-To 25 Depot as Private
14/09/1915-To 2nd Depot Battalion “C” Company
16/10/1915-To 16th Battalion 12th Reinforcements
14/02/1916-Admitted 1st General Hospital Heliopolis Egypt ( Influenza )
16/03/1916-To British Red Cross Hospital Montezah Egypt ( Severe Pneumonia )
15/04/1916-To Agricultural Hall Ghezireh Egypt ( Pneumonia )
19/04/1916-Transferred 48th Battalion ex Overseas Base Ghezireh Egypt
9/06/1917-Wounded in Action France ( Gunshot Wound Right Arm )
10/06/1917-Admitted 13th General Hospital Boulogne France ex 77 Field Ambulance
12/06/1917-Evacuated/Admitted Graylingwell War Hospital Chichester England ex Boulogne France
15/08/1917-To 3rd Aust Aux Hospital Dartford England
20/08/1917-To No. 2 Command Depot Weymouth England
3/10/1917-To No. 1 Command Depot Perham Downs England
19/11/1917-To Overseas Training Brigade Longbridge Deverill England
5/12/1917-Proceeded Overseas France ex Southampton ex Longbridge Deverill
14/12/1917-Rejoined Battalion in the Field France ex Hospital England
20/04/1918-Detached to 12th Aust Light Trench Mortar Battery, then Transferred Officially to Battery on 3/09/1918
5/07/1918-To Aust Corps School in the Field France
29/07/1918-Rejoined Battery in the Field France ex School
7/10/1918-Granted Leave England
24/10/1918-Rejoined Unit in the Field France ex Leave
18/11/1918-Detached to Brigade Headquarters in the Field France
11/02/1919-To 3rd Training Brigade England ex Weymouth ex Aust General Base Depot Havre France for Return to Australia
7/04/1919-Embarked England for Australia per “Tres os Montes”
14/05/1919-Disembarked Australia
6/07/1919-Discharged from Service
Service Medals Awarded
British War Medal – No. 7711
Victory Medal – No. 7681
Soldiers Brother also Served
No- 5207 – Pte. TORRIE, William – 48th Battalion – KIA France – 6/08/1916
30/01/1922– George wrote to Base Records Melbourne in response to their letter dated 10/01/1922 re. disposal of William Torrie’s War Medals. William had listed his next of kin to be his younger brother Bertram, on enlistment for war service. Extracts from George’s reply :- ” Being his oldest brother I would prefer to have his medals, etc. in remembrance of him as I was in the line with him when killed on Pozieres Ridge “.
20/02/1922– Base Records replied that William,s Medals would be forwarded to George, as they issue.
7/12/1927– Base Records wrote to George confirming recovery of William’s remains near Pozieres France. Extracts from the letter include :- ” With further reference to the report of the regrettable loss of your brother, the late No. 5207 Private W. TORRIE, 48th Battalion, I am now in receipt of advice that during the course of exhumation work in the vicinity of Pozieres the Imperial War Graves Commission was successful in recovering the remains of this soldier which have since been interred with every measure of care and reverence in Plot 13, Row J, Grave 14 of Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, situated near Beaumont Hamel where a permanent headstone of uniform design will be erected and engraved with his full regimental description and date of death, together with any verse or epitaph previously selected in the form of a personal inscription “.