War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine

Posted to 11th (North Auckland) Squadron, Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, in the field, Dardanelles, 28 August 1915. Returned from Dardanelles and disembarked, Alexandria, Egypt, 27 December 1915.

Marched out from Zeitoun Camp for Canal Zone, 23 January 1916.

Reported missing from Bir Abu Raml outpost, Canal Zone, believed to be prisoner of war, 3 August 1916. Finding of court of enquiry to be a 'Prisoner of war in the hands of the Turks', Alexandria, Egypt, 26 September 1916. Officially reported to be a prisoner of war, Afion Karahisar POW Camp, Turkey, by New Zealand Records Office, London, 30 October 1916. Reported to have been transferred to Angora (Ankara) POW Camp, Turkey, 10 October 1916, British Foreign Office, London, 7 December 1916. Reported to have died of disease (recurring fever), 4 January 1917, New Zealand Records Office, London, 17 May 1917.

'Lt Alsopp was sent out to Abu Raml on 3 August in command of a patrol of which Trooper McCleod was a member. It was arranged that in the event of anything going wrong he was to fall back on Hod-el-Enna where there were Light Horse outposts. Telephone communication was maintained with the patrol until about 2200 that night. Firing began about 2300 and went on all night. Another patrol was sent out but could not get in touch with Lt Alsopp. The patrol did not return. On 5 August the ground was searched. Traces of the enemy columns could be seen. At Oghratina on 8 August a board was found on which was written 'Lieut Allsop AMR a gentleman, now a P of W has eaten in our battery'.'

'Finding: Prisoner of war in the hands of the Turks'

Report of court of enquiry, Hod-Amara, 31 August 1916.