War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, England

Embarked Alexandria with unit to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (Gallipoli Campaign), 12 April 1915.

Wounded in action, date not stated (bomb wound, right hand); admitted to No.16 Casualty Clearing Station, Walker's Ridge, 11 August 1915; transferred to HS 'Gascon', date not stated; to St Andrew's Hospital, Malta, 16 August 1915; to St George Hospital, Malta, 20 August 1915 (enteric fever); to HS 'Dundee Castle', 13 October 1915; to Mill Road Infirmary, Liverpool, 19 October 1915; marched into NZ Base Depot, Grey Towers, 27 January 1916.

Admitted to No.2 NZ General Hospital, Walton on Thames, 11 May 1916; to Depot, Barton, 18 August 1916.

Attached to NZ Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, 18 October 1916.

Attached to Command Depot, Codford, 15 December 1916.

Attached to Record's Office, London, 7 March 1917.

Appointed Temporary Corporal, 22 April 1917.

Classfied unfit for further service, 28 September 1917.

Marched into Discharge Depot, Torquay, 9 October 1917, and reverts to the rank of Private the same day.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Liverpool on board HT 'Ruahine', 16 November 1917; disembarked New Zealand, 6 January 1918; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of illness contracted on active service), 3 February 1918.

Total war service: 3 years 175 days (of which 3 years 82 days were abroad).