PREVIOUS SERVICE – 3 Years – Royal Canadian Dragoons
9/09/1914- Completed Medical Examination Perth WA & to Depot Company Blackboy Hill WA Private
20/10/1914- Allotted to ” D ” Company 16th Battalion Blackboy Hill
22/12/1914- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Ceramic ” bound for Egypt
3/02/1915- Disembarked Alexandria to Overseas Training Base
12/04/1915- Embarked Alexandria with Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces bound for Gallipoli Peninsula
14/05/1915- Admitted 4th Field Ambulance Gallipoli ( Insomnia )
17/05/1915- Discharged to Duty Gallipoli
26/05/1915- Admitted 1st Stationary Hospital Mudros ( Influenza/Bronchitis ) ex Hospital Ship Gallipoli
30/05/1915- Discharged to Duty Gallipoli
17/08/1915- Admitted Field Ambulance Gallipoli ( Sickness )
21/08/1915- Transferred from 25th Casualty Clearing Station Gallipoli to Base Imbros ( Debility )
15/09/1915- Admitted 1st Canadian Hospital Mudros
18/09/1915- Embarked Mudros by Hospital Ship to England ( Heart Trouble )
26/09/1915- Admitted 5th Southern General Hospital Portsmouth England
15/11/1915- Discharged & Attached to AIF Depot Abbey Wood England
8/06/1916- Taken on Strength Bhurtpore Depot England ex Abbey Wood
15/10/1916- Transferred to 44th Battalion Larkhill England
25/11/1916- Proceeded Overseas France & Appointed Lance Corporal
24/06/1917- AWARDED MILITARY MEDAL France
28/02/1917- Admitted 7th General Hospital St. Omer France ( Orchitis/Mumps )ex 9th Australian Field Ambulance
23/03/1917- Rejoined Unit in the field France ex Base Depot
30/07/1917- Admitted 4th General Hospital Camiers France ( Catarrh ) ex 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station ex 11th Australian Field Ambulance
9/08/1917- Embarked for England ex France
19/08/1917- Admitted Military Hospital Edmonton ( Bronchial Catarrh )
22/08/1917- Transferred to 3rd Australian Aux Hospital Dartford
10/09/1917- To No. 2 Command Depot Weymouth
19/09/1917- To No. 4 Command Depot Codford
20/09/1917- Admitted Camp Isolation Hospital Codford ( Sickness )
28/09/1917- Discharged to No. 4 Command Depot Codford
24/11/1917- To No. 3 Command Depot Codford then to No. 2 Command Depot Weymouth
1/02/1918- Embarked England aboard ” Balmoral Castle ” for Return to Australia ( Debility )
18/03/1918- Disembarked Fremantle WA
5/04/1918- Discharged from Service ( Medically Unfit ).
AWARDED MILITARY MEDAL
Published in the Fourth Supplement No. 30234 to the London Gazette dated 16 August, 1917 – Page Number 8428, Position No. 58.
This advice was also promulgated in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. 219 dated 20 December, 1917 – Page No. 3378, Position No. 27.
SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED
MILITARY MEDAL
1914/15 Star – Medal No. 7117
British War Medal – No. 1485
Victory Medal – No. 1483