Promoted Corporal, Zeitoun, 5 April 1915, and transferred to Divisional Ammunition Column.

Appointed Acting Sergeant, 15 October 1915.

Appointed Acting Sergeant Major with pay, 16 August 1916; appointment cancelled, 26 August 1916.

Transferred to Brigade, 24 October 1917, and relinquished appointment of Temporary Sergeant.

Appointed Temporary Sergeant, 28 October 1917; promoted Sergeant, 13 December 1917.

Admitted to Anzac Rest Station, 30 August 1918 (dysentery), and transferred to 47th Stationary Hospital, Gaza; to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, 2 September 1918; to Aotea Convalescent Home, Heliopolis, 7 October 1918; discharged, but attached to Home for duty, 22 October 1918; discharged to duty, 28 November 1918.

Marched in to Training Regiment, Ismailia, from NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade, 11 December 1918.

Attached to NZ Mounted Field Ambulance, 12 December 1918, and appointed Temporary Quartermaster Sergeant and Temporary Warrant Officer Class II.

Promoted Quartermaster Sergeant and Warrant Officer Class II, 14 December 1918.

Marched out to Training Regiment to await embarkation to United Kingdom, 24 March 1919.

Embarked Port Said on board HT 'Malwa', en route to United Kingdom via Marseilles, France, on leave, 16 April 1919.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Plymouth, England, on board HMNZT 'Ionic', 8 September 1919; disembarked Wellington, 25 October 1919; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service), 22 November 1919.

War service: 5 years 101 days (of which 5 years 11 days were abroad)