14/09/1914- Completed Medical Examination Blackboy Hill WA
26/11/1914- To Overseas Base Egypt ex Australia
1/01/1915-To 12th Battalion “H” Company as Driver
30/01/1915-Admitted No. 2 Aust General Hospital Mena Ghezireh Egypt ( Pneumonia- Dangerously Ill )- Discharged 1/03/1915
2/03/1915-Embarked Alexandria with Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces for Gallipoli Peninsula
10/05/1915-Joined Transport Section Mex Camp Alexandria
3/11/1915-Transferred from Mex Camp Alexandria to Maadi Egypt
4/12/1915-Admitted 2nd Aust General Hospital Ghezireh ( Tonsilitis & Catarrh ) -Discharged 11/12/1915 to Duty Maadi
1/03/1916-Transferred 52nd Battalion in the field Railhead Egypt
14/03/1916-To 4th Division Artillery 24th Howitzer Brigade 112th Battery Tel-el-Kebir Egypt as Gunner
18/04/1916-Appointed Temporary DRIVER Serapeum Egypt
3/06/1916-Transferred to British Expeditionary Foeces Alexandria
1/07/1916-Appointed DRIVER in the field France 24th Field Artillery Brigade
25/01/1917-Transferred 12th Field Artillery Brigade as Driver in the field France
21/09/1917-Granted Leave England ex Belgium
6/10/1917-Rejoined Unit in the field Belgium ex Leave
7/01/1918-Admitted 1st Aust Field Ambulance France( Trench Fever ) then to 1st Aust Division Rest Station
15/01/1918-Rejoined Unit in the field France ex Illness
7/03/1918-Admitted 32nd Stationary Hospital Boulogne France ( Appendicitis ) ex 14th Aust Field Ambulance ex 2nd Aust Casualty Clearing Station
24/03/1918-Evacuated/Admitted Clandon Park Military Hospital ( Royal Herbert ) Woolwich England ( Trench Fever )
6/04/1918-To No. 3 Aust Aux Hospital Dartford England
10/05/1918-Granted Leave England
22/05/1918-To No. 4 Command Depot Hurdcott England ex Leave
25/06/1918-To Overseas Training Brigade Longbridge Deverill ex Hurdcott
12/07/1918-To RBAA Heytesbury ex Longbridge Deverill
15/08/1918-Admitted Devonport Military Hospital England ( Influenza )
20/10/1918-Granted Leave England prior to Return to Australia
21/12/1918-Embarked England for Australia per “Miltiades”
31/01/1919-Disembarked Australia
1/04/1919-Discharged from Service
Service Medals Awarded
1914/15 Star – No. 2384
British War Medal – No. 331
Victory Medal – No. 330
Soldier’s Gallipoli Peninsula Experience
Informant – 989- WILSON, Pte. E, 12th Battalion AIF – “ 942 – LOCKHART, Pte. E. S. , was on the trrop ship ‘ Devana ” with me on the 24th April 1915. I left for Anzac and he was left behind with the horses as he was on Transport.
He is now probably at Alexandria and enquiries to THOMAS, Corporal/Farrier F. A. , 12th Battalion, Transport, Mex Camp, Alexandria “.