17/11/1897

Born at Preston, VIC

11/2/1916

Enlisted at Praharan, VIC at age 20y 3m

Assigned to 6^th Battalion 17^th Reinforcements

4/4/1916

Embarked aboard the HMAT A14 Euripides

27/5/916

Attached to 8^th Battalion, Eygpt

30/5/1916

Embarked at Alexandria, Eygpt as reinforcements for the 1^st Division

7/6/1916

1st Australian Base Depot, Etaples, France

22/6/1916

Admitted 24^th General Hospital, Etaples - German Measles

30/7/1916

Returned to duty with 6^th Battalion

23/8/1916

Detached for duty with 1^st Canadian Tunnelling Company

1/3/1917

Transferred from 6^th Battalion to the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company

28/8/1917

Admitted 2^nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighton - ?.G.T. Leg

6/9/1917

Wounded in Action - Gassed

18/11/1917

Rejoined unit

24/2/1918

Granted two weeks leave

29/7/1918

To Hospital, France - Impetigo

1/8/1918

Return to duty

8/11/1918

To hospital - Influenza

20/11/1918

Return to duty

3/12/1918

Granted one week leave in Paris

29/4/1919

Return to England

16/6/1919

Embark for Australia aboard the Ormonde

1/8/1919

Return to Australia

15/9/1919

Discharged from the AIF

1919

Married Lilian Peterson

1972

Died at age 74