War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine

Posted to unit at Mudros, 3 October 1915.

Disembarked Alexandria, 27 December 1915 (general Gallipoli evacuation).

Admitted to NZ General Hospital, Cairo, 16 January 1916 (influenza); transferred to Aotea Convalescent Home, Heliopolis, 29 January 1916; discharged to General Base, Cairo, 14 February 1916.

Proceeded to Canal Zone, 15 February 1916.

Admitted to hospital (gastritis); transferred 31st General Hospital, Cairo, 2 June 1916; to 27th British Hospital, 3 June 1916; to 7th British Convalescent Depot, Montazah, 8 June 1916; discharged to Agowie Hall, Ghezireh, 20 June 1916. Marched out to Mounted Training Regiment, Tel el Kebir, 22 June 1916; rejoined unit, Hill 70, 12 July 1916.

Admitted to NZ Mounted Field Ambulance, 2 September 1916, and transferred to 31st General Hospital, Port Said (scarlet fever); to 26th Casualty Clearing Station, Kantara, 29 September 1916; discharged to duty, 13 October 1916; rejoined unit, 14 October 1916.

Found guilty, Kantara, 17 October 1916, of (1) highly improper conduct to an officer; (2) resisting arrest; (3) being absent without leave; lateness: awarded 14 days' Field Punishment No 2.

Admitted to No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital, Mahamdiya, 28 January 1917 (inflamed joint, left knee); transferred to 24th Stationary Hospital, Kantara, 4 February 1917; to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, 9 February 1917; to Aotea Convalescent Home, 13 February 1917; to NZ Base, Moascar, 11 March 1917.

Found guilty, 17 March 1917, of (1) when on Active Service being absent without leave from 1800 to 2100, 8 March 1917; (2) direct disobedience of an order in that he when asked for his name refused to give it: awarded 14 days' Field Punishment No 2.

Found guilty, 17 March 1917, of being absent without leave from 10.30, 15 March, to 0600, 17 March 1917: forfeited 2 days' pay.

Marched in to Detention Compound, 17 March 1917; marched out of Detention Compound, 30 March 1917.

Transferred to NZ Mounted Brigade, 29 April 1917.

Transferred to 3rd Squadron, Auckland Mounted Rifles, 2 May 1917.

Admitted to Anzac Rec. Station, 27 July 1917; rejoined unit, 1 August 1917 (no details recorded).

On detachment to Rest Camp, 15 September 1917; rejoined unit, 29 September 1917.

Wounded in action, 25 November 1917 (shell shock); admitted to 66th Casualty Clearing Station, 27 November 1917, and transferred to Hospital Train, 28 November 1917; transferred to 24th Stationary Hospital, Kantara, 29 November 1917; to 27 General Hospital, Abbassia, 29 November 1917; to Aotea Convalescent Home, Heliopolis, 23 December 1917; discharged to NZ Base, 18 January 1918.

Found guilty, 9 March 1918, of being absent without leave from 2130, 6 March, to 2130, 8 March 1918: forfeited 3 days' pay.

Admitted to No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital, 1 March 1918 (blepharitis and cyst, eyelid); discharged to Desert Mounted column Rest Camp, 14 April 1918; rejoined NZ Mounted Regiment, 25 April 1918.

Admitted to NZ Mounted Field Ambulance, 23 August 1918; transferred to 36th Stationary Hospital, Gaza, 29 August 1918 (pyrexia unknown origin); to 21st Stationary Hospital, Kantara, 31 August 1918; discharged to duty, 1 September 1918.

Admitted to 14th Australian General Hospital, Port Said, 16 October 1918 (influenza); discharged to Desert Mounted Column Rest Camp, 24 October 1918; rejoined Training Regiment, Ismailia, 14 November 1918.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Suez on board HT 'Nestor', 25 December 1918; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service: malaria), 18 April 1919.

Total war service: 3 years 322 days (of which 3 years 193 days were abroad).