25/09/1914- Completed Medical Examination & Joined 16th Battalion ” B ” Company Blackboy Hill WA as Private
3/02/1915- To Overseas Base Depot Egypt ex Australia
12/04/1915- Embarked Alexandria Egypt with Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces bound for Gallipoli Peninsula
2/05/1915- Wounded in Action Gallipoli ( Gunshot Wound Perforating Left Foot ) – Admitted 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station
3/05/1915- Evacuated/Admitted No. 2 General Hospital Cairo Egypt ex Hospital Ship ex Gallipoli
16/06/1915- Discharged from Hospital to Base Details Zeitoun Egypt
21/07/1915- Embarked Alexandria Egypt to rejoin Unit Gallipoli Peninsula
7/08/1915- Wounded in Action Gallipoli ( Gunshot Wound Right Hand )
11/08/1915- Evacuated/Admitted 1st Australian General Hospital Cairo Egypt ex Mudros  ex Gallipoli
13/08/1915- To No. 1 Aux Hospital Heliopolis Egypt
25/08/1915-  Re- Admitted 1st Australian General Hospital Cairo – Amputation of Finger
10/06/1916- Embarked Alexandria for Australia per ” Itonus ” ( Neurasthenia )
18/07/1916- Disembarked Fremantle WA
18/09/1916- Discharged from Service ( Medically Unfit )
20/12/1934- Date of Death

Service Medals Awarded

1914/15 Star – No. 3513

British War Medal – No. 1538

Victory Medal – No. 1536

Memorial Inscription

Yarloop War Memorial WA.

**** Special Thanks to Anne HAYLOCK whose Research identified the Soldier working as a Mill Hand at Hoffman’s Mill, Yarloop in 1912.  The Soldier’s Mother,  Ellen Truscott, was still a resident of Yarloop in 1915 “. ****