06/08/1915- Completed Medical Examination at Pinjarra
19/08/1915- To 24 Depot Company then No.3 Depot Squadron Blackboy Hill Camp as Private
20/10/1915- To 11th Reinforcements 10th Light Horse Regiment Blackboy Hill as Trooper
01/11/1915- Embarked Fremantle aboard “Benalla” bound for Egypt
24/11/1915- Disembarked Alexandria to Mena Camp Heliopolis
26/02/1916- Admitted 3rd Aux Hospital Heliopolis Egypt ( Influenza )
6/03/1916- Joined 3rd Light Horse Reserve Regiment Heliopolis Egypt
10/03/1916- Discharged Duty ex 3rd Aux Hospital Heliopolis Egypt
23/10/1916- Joined 10th Light Horse Training Regiment Moascar Egypt
1/07/1917- Admitted 5th Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance Shellal Egypt ( Debility )
9/07/1917- Rejoined Regiment Abbassia Egypt
15/09/1917- Detached to Imperial School of Instruction Shellal Egypt
8/11/1917- Wounded in Action Wadi Jemmameh Egypt ( Gunshot Wound Right Arm )
16/11/1917- Admitted 14th Australian General Hospital Abbassia Egypt ex 45th Stationary Hospital El Arish ex 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance ex 35th Casualty Clearing Station
28/11/1917- Admitted Convalescent Depot Abbassia Egypt
8/12/1917- Rejoined 3rd Light Horse Training Regiment Moascar Egypt
3/01/1918- Transferred 10th Light Horse Regiment Moascar Egypt
18/05/1918- Admitted 47th Stationary Hospital Gaza ( Debility ) ex 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance ex Anzac Receiving Station ex 65th Casualty Clearing Station
20/05/1918- Admitted 31st General Hospital Abbassia Egypt
17/06/1918- Rejoined 10th Light Horse Regiment Moascar Egypt ex Sickness
15/10/1918- Awarded MILITARY MEDAL
10/07/1919- Embarked Suez for Australia per ” Oxfordshire ”
4/08/1919- Disembarked Australia
26/09/1919- Discharged from Service
SARRE was working in the Timber industry in Collie at the time of his Enlistment, and was President of the local RSL Sub- Branch for some time after the War.
SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED
Military Medal
1914/1915 Star – No. 5488
British War Medal – No. 5978
Victory Medal – No. 5965.
MILITARY MEDAL
Date of Recommendation ; 23 December 1918
” Trooper SARRE on the night 29th/30th September 1918 was one of O.C. Lieut GWYNNE’s troop which stormed the rocky ridge of SASA. He was in charge of a troop Hotchkiss Gun with which weapon he did considerable damage amongst the enemy. During the pursuit at daylight on the 30th he gallopped his gun forward as close as it could be brought to the action and shot the crew of a leading field gun hereby causing its abandonment by the enemy. SARRE showed conspicuous gallantry and dash throughout the whole of these operations “.
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette : 17 October 1919, No. 119
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette : page 1531, Position 35
Date of London Gazette : 3 July 1919. Third Supplement N0. 31430.
Location in London Gazette : page 8357, Position 91.
SECOND WORLD WAR SERVICE
W69622 – “A” Company 4th Battalion (Bunbury) Volunteer Defence Corps, Enlisted at Collie on 26th April 1942, Posted at Pinjarra, Appointed Lieutenant, however reverted to Private at own request on 31st December 1943, Completed Junior Leaders Course and Company Commanders Course at Harvey during 1943, Discharged from Service on 15th October 1945.