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 |