14/08/1916- Application to Enlist & Medical Examination York WA
01/09/1916- To No. 82 Depot as Private
14/09/1916- To 18th Reinforcements 28th Battalion
30/09/1916- To Depot Signals Company
08/12/1916- To 9th Reinforcements 4th Division Signals Company Blackboy Hill WA as Sapper
12/03/1917- To Depot Company as Private
26/03/1917- To Wireless Company Moore Park NSW as Sapper
01/06/1917- Transferred to Australian Flying Corps 11 May Reinforcements Laverton VIC
04/08/1917- Embarked Melbourne VIC aboard ” Themistocles ” bound for Glasgow, Scotland
02/10/1917- Disembarked Glasgow ex Australia
03/10/1917- To Australian Flying Corps Depot Details Halton Camp Wendover England
16/11/1917- To School of Wireless Farnborough England
15/03/1918- Admitted Connaugh Hospital Aldershot England ( Athritis )
10/04/1918- Rejoined School ex Hospital
13/04/1918- To Australian Flying Corps Training Depot Wendover ex School
26/05/1918- Admitted Military Hospital Aylesbury England ( Sick )
28/05/1918- Transferred/Admitted 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital Bulford England
16/07/1918- To Convalescent Training Depot Parkhouse England
26/07/1918- To AFC Depot Wendover ex Parkhouse
20/08/1918- To A.B.P.D London ex Wendover
28/08/1918- To AFC Training Depot Wendover
05/09/1918- To Nucleus Flight Stonehenge ex Wendover
28/09/1918- To AFC Training Depot Wendover
17/10/1918- Proceeded Overseas France ex Blandford England
23/10/1918- Detached to 3rd Squadron AFC as Wireless Operator
26/01/1919- Admitted Hospital France ( Sick ) ex 53rd Casualty Clearing Station then Transferred to No. 36 Ambulance Train
30/01/1919- Evacuated/Admitted Fulham Military Hospital England ( Whilst on Leave in UK)
13/02/1919- Granted Leave England
16/02/1919- Admitted Lewisham Military Hospital England ( Varicole )
14/03/1919- To No. 2 Command Depot Weymouth England ex Hospital ex Leave
18/03/1919- Admitted 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital Bulford England
22/05/1919- To Convalescent Training Depot Parkhouse England
03/06/1919- To No. 4 Group Hurdcott England ex Parkhouse
12/07/1919- Embarked England aboard ” Exeter ” for Return to Australia
16/08/1919- Disembarked Fremantle
16/09/1919- Discharged from Service ( Termination of Period of Enlistment ).

SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED

British War Medal – No. 20041

Victory Medal – No. 19129

Talbot Reginald ANDERSON was one of a powerful commitment of 5 Brothers who enlisted for Service in the First World War. His siblings are also honoured on this website:-

Alfred Ernest- 6222- 16th Battalion,

Dudley Maurice- 380- 11th Battalion, ( Died of Wounds Received in Action at Gallipoli- Died in Hospital after evacuation to Egypt ),

Raymond Charles- 1380- Royal Australian Navy,

Victor Rudolph Busselton- 16401- 3rd Division Signals Company.