2369 Ernest SIMKIN

Date of enlistment	10^th July 1915
Rank at enlistment	Private
Company	D Company
Significant events while with the AIF	Wounded in Action – Pozieres Hospitalised sick four times Marriage

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

Date	Location	Event
24^th October 1919	Australia	Discharged
23^rd August 1919	Australia	Disembarked at Melbourne
3^rd July 1919	England	Return to Australia via Zealandic, with wife and 4 children
15^th January 1919	England	Marched in to Codford
4^th December 1918	England	Absent without leave – forfeiture of 12 days pay
15^th November 1918	England	Marched in to 5^th Training Battalion Fovant
30^th October 1918	England	Marched in to Training Brigade Longbridge Deverill
19^th August 1918	England	Marched in to No.4 Command Depot Hurdcott following two weeks furlough
1^st August 1918	England	Transferred to 3^rd Auxiliary Hospital Dartford
27^th June 1918	England	Admitted Bath War Hospital – appendicitis
26^th June 1918	France	Embarked Rouen for England
15^th June 1918	France	To 20 CCS hospital sick – appendicitis
14^th October 1917	Belgium	Taken on Strength
9^th October 1917	England	Proceeded overseas to France via Southampton from Hurdcott
19^th September 1917	England	Transferred to 22^nd Battalion
20^th June 1917	England	Marriage to Rose Peck (widow) in Pewsey, Wiltshire
26^th April 1917	England	Discharged to depot
25^th April 1917	England	Sick to 16^th Field Ambulance Hospital Wareham
23^rd March 1917	England	Taken on Strength to 65^th Battalion
17^th February 1917	England	Marched in to Perham Down
28^th December 1916	England	Marched in to No.1 Con Depot
12^th December 1916	England	Admitted to Brigade Hospital Perham Down
31^st October 1916	England	To No.1 Command Depot Perham Down
16^th October 1916	England	Discharged from hospital to furlough
12^th August 1916	England	Admitted to Chatham Military Hospital
10^th August 1916	France	Embarked at Calais on Brighton
30^th July 1916	France	Admitted to 3CCS
27^th July – 4^th August 1916	France	Wounded in Action – gunshot wound right leg and left thigh
26^th March 1916	France	Disembarked Marseille
19^th March 1916	Egypt	Proceeded to join British Expeditionary Force from Alexandria on the Llandovery Castle
14^th March 1916	Egypt	Re-joined Unit at Zeitoun from hospital
7^th March 1916	Egypt	Conduct to the prejudice of good military order – at Ferry Post left ranks without permission. Award 48 hours FP#2 and 3 days pay
14^th January 1916	Egypt	To hospital sick
8^th January 1916	Egypt	Taken on Strength, Tel-el-Kabir
25^th October 1915	Egypt	Disembarked Alexandria
29^th September 1915	Australia	Departed Melbourne on RMS Osterley
3^rd August 1915	Australia	Assigned to 5^th Reinforcements 22^nd Battalion
19^th July 1915	Australia	Marched into Broadmeadows depot