| Date of enlistment | 13th July 1915 |
| Rank at enlistment | Private |
| Company | |
| Significant events while with the AIF | Wounded in Action – Pozieres
Hospitalised sick twice |
Summary of Private Edwards WW1 service record, located in the National Archives of Australia. Full details are available online, NAA Series B2455
| Date | Location | Event |
| 24th May 1918 | Australia | Discharged |
| 13th November 1917 | Australia | Disembarked |
| 10th September 1917 | England | Return to Australia on A38 Ulysses |
| 18th August 1917 | England | Discharged from Tidworth Military Hospital to No.2 Command Depot Weymouth |
| 4th April 1917 | England | Sick to hospital (old wound discharging) |
| 20th March 1917 | England | Marched into Perham Down from hospital |
| 14th February 1917 | England | Sick to hospital (Delhi?/Tidworth) |
| 10th February 1917 | England | Marched into No.1 Command Depot Perham Down from No.2 Command Depot Weymouth |
| 17th October 1916 | England | Transferred to 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield |
| 27th August 1916 | England | Embarked Boulogne on HS St.Denis for England, and admitted 2nd Eastern Hospital Brighton |
| 7th August 1916 | France | Transferred to 2nd Canadian Gen Hospital, Boulogne |
| 4th August 1916 | France | Wounded in Action – shell wound back, and to 44 CCS. Hit by shrapnel ball to back |
| 26th March 1916 | France | Disembarked Marseille |
| 19th March 1916 | Egypt | Proceeded to join British Expeditionary Force from Alexandria on the Llandovery Castle |
| 8th January 1916 | Egypt | Taken on Strength, Tel-el-Kabir |
| 25th October 1915 | Egypt | Disembarked Alexandria |
| 29th September 1915 | Australia | Departed Melbourne on RMS Osterley |
| 12th September 1915 | Australia | Assigned to 5th Reinforcements 22nd Battalion |
| 28th July 1915 | Australia | Marched into Broadmeadows depot |

FIRST WORLD WAR TIMELINE