War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Enlisted with rank of Private and posted to New Zealand Medical Corps (attached to New Zealand Divisional Signal Company), Dunedin, 19 August 1914. Proceeded overseas from Wellington on board HMNZT 'Waimana', 16 October 1914.

Disembarked Alexandria, Egypt, and entrained for Zeitoun Camp near Cairo, 3 December 1914.

Transferred from New Zealand Medical Corps to New Zealand Divisional Signal Company, New Zealand Engineers, 4 March 1915.

Marched out of Zeitoun Camp and entrained for Alexandria, 1915.

Proceeded overseas from Alexandria to the Dardanelles on board

Wounded in action, admitted to New Zealand Field Ambulance, No. 2 Post, Anzac, Gallipoli, and evacuated to Lemnos, 21 August 1915 (gunshot wound, scrotum); transferred to HMT 'Franconia' for treatment in England, 25 August 1915; admitted to Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital, Cardiff, Wales, 9 September 1915; transferred to Anzac Convalescent Depot, Weymouth, Dorsetshire, 25 October 1915; transferred to New Zealand Command Depot, Hornchurch, Essex, 11 January 1916. Marched out from New Zealand Command Depot, Hornchurch, and proceeds overseas to France to rejoin unit, 6 June 1916.

Marched in to New Zealand Infantry and General Base Depot, Etaples, France, 7 June 1916.

Marched out from New Zealand Infantry and General Base Depot to rejoin unit in the field, 25 June 1916; rejoins New Zealand Divisional Signal Company, in the field, 26 June 1916.

Proceeded on leave to United Kingdom, 20 September 1917.

Appointed to rank of Lance Corporal, 23 September 1917.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Liverpool, England, on board HMNZT 'Tahiti', 3 December 1918.

Disembarked , New Zealand, .

Discharged on termination of engagement, 9 February 1919.

Total war service: 4 years 175 days (of which 4 years 88 days were overseas).