2454 John WHITE*

* aka BRUSH, Horace Reginald

Date of enlistment	10^th July 1915
Rank at enlistment	Private
Company	Transferred to 1^st Field Bakery, then Trench Mortar School
Significant events while with the AIF	Hospitalised sick twice

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

Date	Location	Event
29^th June 1919	Australia	Discharged
21^st March 1919	England	Returned to Australia on Kildonian Castle from Devonport
22^nd February 1919	France	Departed for England
15^th October 1918	France	To hospital sick
20^th August 1918	France	Absent without leave. Awarded 7 days FP#2 and forfeiture of 9 days pay
7^th August 1918	France	Detailed to 4^th Army Trench Mortar School
1^st August 1918	France	Re-joined 7/8 Medium Trench Mortar Brigade
19^th February 1918	France	Taken on strength 10^th East Africa Brigade
13^th February 1918	England	Proceeded overseas from Southampton to France
15^th January 1918	England	Overstaying leave by six days. Award 14 days CC and forfeiture of 18 days pay
16^th November 1917	England	Transferred to Artillery training base Heytesbury
23^rd June 1917	England	Absent without leave at No.3 Command Depot Hurdcott. Award 3 days CC and forfeit of 2 days pay
8^th June 1917	England	Discharged from Croydon hospital
20^th April 1917	England	Admitted to Addington Park War Hospital with dysentery
19^th April 1917	France	Embarked Le Havre on HS Grantully Castle for England with dysentery
5^th April 1917	France	Admitted to hospital with dysentery
24^th March 1917	France	Crime – award deprived of 1 days pay
25^th November 1916	France	Absent without leave – award deprived of 7 days pay
30^th March 1916	France	Disembarked at Marseille
23^rd March 1916	Egypt	Embarked on SS Simla from Alexandria to join British Expeditionary Force
22^nd January 1916	Egypt	Transferred to 1^st Field Bakery
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