War service: Western Front

Embarked Wellington, 2 January 1917; transshipped Cape Town to RMS 'Walmer', 24 February 1917; disembarked Devonport, 27 March 1917.

Proceeded overseas to France from Sling Camp, 26 May 1917; joined Bn, and posted to C Company, 18 June 1917.

Admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance, 11 August 1917 (exhaustion); rejoined unit, 22 August 1917.

Wounded in action, 12 October 1917; admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance, 13 October 1917; transferred same day to 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station; to 55th General Hospital, 14 October 1917; to England, 18 October 1917, and admitted to Tooting Military Hospital, 19 October 1917; to No 1 NZ Military Hospital, Brockenhurst, 12 November 1917; to NZ Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, 13 December 1917; to NZ Command Depot, Codford, 8 February 1918.

To Lewis Gun course, 11-25 June 1918.

Proceeded overseas to France, 25 September 1918; rejoined Bn, 30 September 1918.

Wounded in action, 25 October 1918 (gun shot wound, left leg); admitted same day to No 3 NZ Field Ambulance, and discharged to unit.

Evacuated to hospital with same wound, 28 October 1918; transferred to 38th Casualty Clearing Station, 29 October 1918, and thence by Ambulance Train No 37 to 2nd Stationary Hospital, Abbeville, 29 October 1918. Transferred to Birmingham War Hospital, 4 November 1918; to NZ Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, 20 November 1918; discharged to duty at Hornchurch, 10 December 1918.

Appointed Temporary Corporal, 10 March 1919, whilst employed as Cook on Sanitary Fatigue; relinquished temporary rank, 30 May 1919.

Commenced return to New Zealand on board 'Ayrshire', 5 August 1919 (previously failed to embark on board 'Hororata' from Plymouth, 28 July 1919); discharged (in consequence of being no longer physically for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service), 23 October 1919.

Total war service: 3 years 56 days (of which 2 years 267 days were abroad).