2353 Claude Norman PRICE

Date of enlistment 10th July 1915
Rank at enlistment Acting Corporal
Company Transferred to 6th Machine Gun Company
Significant events while serving with the AIF Hospitalised sick

Summary of  Acting Corporal Price’s WW1 service record, located in the National Archives of Australia. Full details are available online, NAA Series B2455

Date Location Event
2nd January 1918 Australia Discharged
5th July 1917 Australia Disembarked Melbourne
4th May 1917 England Returned to Australia from Devonport on HT ‘Runic’ for home service – synovitis both ankles
12th April 1917 England Marched out to No.2 depot Weymouth from No.4 depot Wareham
19th February 1917 England Marched out to No.4 depot Wareham from Perham Down
10th February 1917 England Marched into No.1 Command Depot Perham Down from furlough
24th December 1916 England Admitted 1st London General Hospital, Wandsworth
23rd December 1916 France Embarked at Rouen on Hospital Ship ‘St.George’ for England
9th December 1916 France To hospital sick – synovitis of ankle, and scabies
20th August 1916 France Absent without leave – forfeit of 32 days pay
24th March 1916 France Disembarked at Marseille
19th March 1916 Egypt Proceeded to join BEF from Alexandria
1st March 1916 Egypt Transferred to 6th Machine Gun Company
8th January 1916 Egypt Taken on Strength at Tel-el-Kabir
25th October 1915 Egypt Disembarked Alexandria
29th September 1915 Australia Embarked Melbourne on HMAT ‘Osterley’
3rd August 1915 Australia Assigned to 5th Reinforcements 22nd Battalion
19th July 1915 Australia Marched into depot

 

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