War service: Western Front

Embarked Wellington on board HMNZT 'Maunganui', 26 June 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 22 August 1916; marched in to Sling Camp, 23 August 1916.

Transferred to Otago Company, 28 August 1916.

Proceeded overseas to France, 26 September 1916; attached to strength, NZ Base Depot, Etaples, 27 September 1916; joined 1st Bn, Otago Infantry Regiment, in the field, 12 October 1916.

Admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance, 27 December 1916 (necrosis, lymph glands, right groin); discharged to unit, 7 January 1916; rejoined Bn, in the field, 7 January 1917.

Admitted to No 3 NZ Field Ambulance, 4 February 1917; transferred to No 2 NZ Field Ambulance, 9 February 1917 (inflammation of connective tissue, penis); rejoined Bn, 14 February 1917.

Transferred to 1st Bn, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 8 March 1917.

On leave to United Kingdom, 3 December 1917. Admitted to No 3 NZ General Hospital, Codford, while on leave, 7 December 1917 (diarrhoea); discharged from hospital, 19 December 1917; rejoined Bn, in the field, France, 2 January 1918.

Admitted to No 3 NZ Field Ambulance, 6 May 1918; discharged to unit, 11 May 1918; rejoined unit, in the field, 11 May 1918.

On leave to United Kingdom, 21 August 1918; rejoined unit from leave, 19 September 1918.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Liverpool on board SS 'Oxfordshire', 19 December 1918; discharged (no longer physically fir for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service: incontinence of urine), 4 March 1919.

Total war service: 2 years 361 days (of which 2 years 224 days were abroad)