War service: Western Front

Enlisted with rank of private and posted to F Company, 21st Reinforcements, Trentham Camp, Upper Hutt, 19 September 1916. Proceeded overseas from Wellington with 21st Reinforcements on board HMNZT 'Waitemata', 19 January 1917.

Disembarked Devonport, England, marched into Sling Camp and taken on strength, 3rd Canterbury-Otago (Reserve) Battalion, and posted to 2nd (Canterbury) Company, 28 March 1917. Taken on strength 3rd Canterbury Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade, and posted to 13th (North Canterbury-Westland) Company, 2 May 1917. Proceeded overseas with unit for France, 28 May 1917.

Found guilty, 7 January 1918, of malingering, in that he returned from a working party without a reasonable excuse: awarded 7 days' Field Punishment No 2.

Attached to strength of New Zealand Divisional Wing, XXII Corps Reinforcement Camp, Abbeville, 8 February 1918.

Admitted to 49th Field Ambulance, Abbeville, 25 February 1918 (Pyrexia - Not Yet Diagnosed); admitted to 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, Abbeville, 26 February 1918: admitted to No 7 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, 1 March 1918 (Pyrexia of Unknown Origin - PUO): evacuated to England onboard HMHS 'Princess Elizabeth', 22 April 1918: admitted to No 2 New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, England, 25 April 1918: discharged to New Zealand Discharge Depot, Torquay, 15 May 1918.

Marched in from New Zealand Discharge Depot, Torquay, and taken on strength, New Zealand Command Depot, Codford, 5 July 1918.

Marched in from New Zealand Command Depot, Codford, and taken on strength 3rd Canterbury (Reserve) Battalion, Sling Camp, 22 August 1918.

To be lance corporal while acting as instructor, School of Musketry, Sling Camp, 11 October 1918.

Detached to attend course at School of Instruction (Lewis Gun Course), Hayling Island, 4 November 1918.

Promoted to rank of lance-corporal, 27 November 1918.

Ceased attachment to School of Instruction and rejoined 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Sling Camp, 6 December 1918.

Commenced return to New Zealand from Plymouth on board HMT 'Hororata', 28 July 1919.

Arrived New Zealand, 21 September 1919.

Discharged on termination of period of engagement, 11 October 1919.