28/07/1915- Completed Medical Examination Perth WA
4/08/1915- To No. 20 Depot Company as Private
16/10/1915- To 11th Battalion 12th Reinforcements
16/01/1916- Admitted No. 1 Aux Hospital Heliopolis Egypr ( NYD )
6/02/1916- Discharged from Hospital to Duty at Overseas Base Zeitoun Egypt
7/02/1916- Re-Admitted 1st Aux Hospital Heliopolis Egypt ( Influenza )
12/02/1916- Discharged to Duty Zeitoun
2/03/1916- Joined 11th Battalion ” A ” Company Habieta Egypt
29/03/1916- Embarked Alexandria Egypt with Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces bound for Marseilles France ( Disembarked 5/04/1916 )
30/05/1916- Wounded in Action France ( Shell Shock ) & Admitted 1st Field Ambulance & Division Receiving Station
12/06/1916- Rejoine Battalion in the field France ex Injured
27/06/1916- Admitted Hospital France ( Diarrhoea )
1/07/1916- Rejoined Battalion in the field France ex sickness
22/07/1916- Wounded in Action France ( Shell Shock )
26/07/1916- Admitted 10th General Hospital Rouen France ex 2nd Field Ambulance ex 44th Casualty Clearing Station
27/07/1916- Embarked Rouen France bound for England
28/07/1916- Admitted Graylingwell War Hospital Chichester England
25/08/1916- Discharged from Hospital to 3rd Training Battalion No. 6 Camp at No. 1 Command Depot Perham Downs England
29/08/1916- Proceeded Overseas 1st Australian Division Base Depot Etaples France ex England
15/12/1916- Rejoined Unit in the field France ex Base Depot
23/12/1916- Admitted 22nd General Hospital Camiers France ( Rheumatism ) ex 5th Field Ambulance ex 36th Casualty Clearing Station
2/01/1917- To No. 6 Convalescent Depot Camiers France
3/01/1917- Returned to 1st Australian Division Base Depot Etaples France
13/02/1917- Embarked for England ex France
17/02/1917- To No. 2 Command Depot Weymouth England
6/04/1917- Embarked Devonport England for Australia per ” Themistocles ” ( Rheumatism, Debility & Age )
4/05/1917- Disembarked Australia
16/07/1917- Discharged from Service ( Medically Unfit )
Service Medals Awarded
1914/1915 Star – No. 436
British War Medal – No. 7323
Victory Medal – No. 7274
Memorial Inscription
Yarloop War Memorial WA.
**** Special thanks to Terry McCAUGHAN for his additional Research to prove the Soldiers South West Connection on the 1914 Swan/Wellington Electoral Roll *****.
****Additional thanks to Anne HAYLOCK who confirmed that Joseph William Gurney fathered a son whilst living with his wife at Worsley in 1912, when employed as a Mill Hand.*****