24/02/1916- Completed Medical Examination Bunbury WA
1/03/1915- To No.9 Depot Company Blackboy Hill WA as Private then to ” A ” Company 28th Battalion
29/06/1915- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Ascanius ” bound for Egypt
21/07/1915- Disembarked Alexandria ex Australia to Overseas Training Base
4/09/1915- Embarked Alexandria with Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces bound for Gallipoli Peninsula
10/01/1916 – Disembarked Alexandria ex Mudros ex Gallipoli
16/03/1916- Embarked Alexandria with British Expeditionary Forces bound for Marseiiles France
21/03/1916- Disembarked Marseilles
29/07/1916- Reported Missing in Action France
4/01/1917- Court of Enquiry found soldier to have been Killed in Action, France.

REPORT OF SOLDIER’S DEATH

Informant – ” ETTY, R, 619 – I was lying wounded with him in a shell hole and in trying to get back he was killed by a shell- badly mutilated – no grave. He was in my Company (” A ” ) and I knew him intimately “.

SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED

1914/15 Star – Medal No. 23345

British War Medal – No. 13730

Victory Medal – No. 13670

Memorial Plaque/Scroll – No.313873.

MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

Donnybrook War Memorial WA

Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT – Panel No. 112

Villers-Brettoneux Memorial France.