War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Posted to 4th Battery, Anzac, Gallipoli, 5 August 1915.

Disembarked Malta from HS 'Valdivia', 20 August 1915 (debility); transferred to England, 29 August 1915 (dysentery), and admitted to Military Hospital, Bethnal Green, London, 5 September 1915; transferred to NZ Convalescent Depot, Hornchurch, 11 January 1916.

Proceeded overseas to France (date not recorded); attached to NZ Base Depot, Etaples, 14 May 1916.

Marched out to Training School, Etaples, 29 July 1916; marched in to Base Depot from Training School, 9 August 1916.

Marched out to England, 29 August 1916; marched in to NZ Reserve Group, Sling Camp, 21 September 1916.

Found guilty, 22 September 1916, of when on Active Service being absent without leave from 5 pm, 29 August, to 11.30 pm, 19 September 1916: awarded 21 days' detention, and forfeited 22 days' pay under Royal Warrant.

Proceeded overseas to France, 7 January 1917; attached to NZ Base Depot, Etaples, 9 January 1917.

Found guilty, 10 January 1917, of when on Active Service being absent without leave, 2.30-9 pm, 9 January 1917: awarded 14 days' Field Punishment No 1 and forfeited 1 day's pay under Royal Warrant.

Marched out to detention, 10 January 1917.

Posted to Divisional Ammunition Column, 25 January 1917.

On leave to United Kingdom, 20 August 1917; rejoined unit from leave, 5 September 1917.

Transferred to 1st Brigade, 14 October 1917, and posted to 7th Battery.

Admitted to No 2 NZ Field Ambulance, 4 January 1918 (bronchitis); transferred to 63rd Casualty Clearing Station, 8 January 1918; to 46th Casualty Clearing Station, 9 January 1918; to Ambulance Train No 36, 11 January 1918, and admitted to 13th General Hospital, Boulogne; transferred to England, 18 January 1918, and admitted to Military Hospital, Tooting; transferred to NZ Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, 5 February 1918; discharged on furlough, 9 February 1918, to report to Aldershot, 25 February 1918.

Admitted to 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, 23 February 1918; transferred to NZ Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, 23 March 1918; discharged on furlough, 20 April 1918, to report to Aldershot, 29 April 1918.

Admitted to No 2 NZ General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, 25 July 1918 (bronchial catarrh).

Found guilty, 14 August 1918, of when on Active Service being absent without leave from 8 pm, 10 August, to 8 am, 12 August 1918: deprived of 2 days' pay, and forfeited 2 days' pay under Royal Warrant.

Classified 'Unfit' by NZ Medical Board and placed on NZ Roll, 24 August 1918.

Discharged from Convalescent Hospital to Eveshott, 3 October 1918.

Found guilty, 10 Maerch 1919, of being absent without leave from 6 pm, 9 March, to 9 pm, 10 March 1919: forfeited 4 days' pay, and 2 days' pay under Royal Warrant.

Found guilty, Torquay, of being absent without leave from 12 noon, 3 June, until apprehended, 8.45 pm, 3 June 1919: forfeited 1 day's pay, and 1 day's pay under Royal Warrant.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Southampton on board HT 'Marama', 9 June 1919; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service), 25 September 1919.

War service: 4 years 286 days (of which 4 years 154 days were abroad)