2461 John Balfour LAMONT

Date of enlistment	15^th July 1915
Rank at enlistment	Private
Company	Transferred to 6th Field Ambulance & HQ
Significant events while with the AIF	Wounded in Action Hospitalised sick twice

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

Date	Location	Event
19^th September 1919	Australia	Discharged
4^th July 1919	Australia	Disembarked at Melbourne
15^th May 1919	England	Return to Australia on Vpiringa
4^th March 1919	England	Discharged from hospital and to duty
23^rd February 1919	England	Admitted to Group Clearing Hospital Sutton Veny – sick angina
15^th August 1918	England	Discharged from hospital
31^st July 1918	England	Admitted to Sutton Veny hospital – old thigh injury
17^th May 1917	England	Attached to Group Clearing Hospital Sutton Veny
20^th April 1917	England	Marched in to No.1 Command Depot Perham Down
2^nd March 1917	England	Transferred to 3^rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford
10^th February 1917	England	Admitted to 2^nd Birmingham War Hospital
9^th February 1917	France	Embarked on HS Formosa from Le Havre
4^th February 1917	France	Wounded in Action – high explosive shrapnel giving multiple wounds right side peppered all over with small superficial wounds
29^th August 1916	France	Transferred to 6^th Field Ambulance
26^th March 1916	France	Disembarked Marseille
19^th March 1916	Egypt	Proceeded to join British Expeditionary Force from Alexandria on the Llandovery Castle
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
11^th September 1915	Australia	Assigned to 5^th Reinforcements 22^nd Battalion
11^th August 1915	Australia	Signalling School
22^nd July 1915	Australia	Marched into depot