PREVIOUS SERVICE – Lieutenant Colonel of 25th Light Horse Regiment
2/10/1914- Appointed Lieutenant Colonel & In Command of 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment
8/02/1915- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Mashobra ” bound for Egypt
4/03/1915- Disembarked Alexandria ex Australia to Training Headquarters
27/07/1915- Embarked Alexandria with Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces bound for Gallipoli Peninsula
29/07/1915-  Joined 10th Light Horse Regiment in the field Gallipoli
7/08/1915- On Command at the Nek, Walkers Ridge for the Legendary Bayonet Charge/Assault on Turkish Trenches
28/08/1915- Wounded in Action Anzac Gallipoli ( Shrapnel Wound to Left Eye causing Retinnal Haemhorrhage )
29/08/1915- Evacuated by Hospital Ship to Mudros then shipped to England for Treatment
13/09/1915- Admitted 3rd London General Hospital Wandsworth England
12/12/1915- Embarked Portland England aboard ” Star of England ” for Return to Australia
29/01/1916- Disembarked Fremantle WA ( GSW eye )
14/05/1916- Appointment Terminated.

19/12/1916- Re-Appointed to AIF as Lieutenant Colonel
29/12/1916- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Persic ”  as Officer in Charge of Troops ( Voyage Only ) bound for England.
3/03/1917- Disembarked Devonport ex Australia
4/05/1917- Embarked Devonport aboard ” Themistocles ” bound for Australia
25/06/1917- Disembarked Fremantle WA
27/06/1917- Appointment Terminated.

SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED

1914/15 Star – Medal No. 7135

British War Medal – No. 1662

Victory Medal – No. 1659.

MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

Kirup War Memorial WA

Midland Officers & Contract Surveyors of the Department of Lands & Surveys WA Honour Roll.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

For Lieut-Colonel BRAZIER’S report on operations of the 10th Light Horse Regiment at Russell’s Top on 7th August 1915 and other hand written papers of his First World War Service please refer to:-

AWM2020-22-120.