10/03/1915- Completed Medical Examination Bunbury WA
19/04/1915- To No. 14 Depot Blackboy Hill WA as Private
6/05/1915- Allotted to 6th Reinforcements 11th Battalion Blackboy Hill
6/06/1915- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Geelong ” bound for Egypt
28/06/1915- Disembarked Alexandria ex Australia to Overseas Training Base
31/07/1915- Embarked Alexandria with Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces bound for Gallipoli Peninsula
4/08/1915- Joined 11th Battalion in the field Gallipoli
6/08/1915- Wounded in Action Gallipoli ( Bullet Wound Penetrating Abdomen )
6/08/1915- Admitted to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station Gallipoli then to Hospital Ship ” Sicilia ”
6/08/1915- Died of Wounds Received in Action Gallipoli ( Died at Sea aboard Hospital Ship ).

AUTHOR’S NOTE

20/03/1915- Australian Army Medical Corps certified that NISSEN was medically Unfit for Active Service due to Varicose Veins .

SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED

1914/15 Star – Medal No. 5059

British War Medal – No. 18089

Victory Medal – No. 18019

Memorial Plaque/Scroll – No. 306596.

MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

Greenbushes War Memorial  WA

Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT – Panel No. 63

Lone Pine Memorial Gallipoli Turkey – Panel No. 34.