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M.B., Ch.M. : Major, 7th A.L.H. Regt., A.I.F., Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine. Enlisting 5th November, 1914, and sailing 18th December, served at Gallipoli, where wounded 10th July, 1915, and then in Sinai Desert, Palestine and elsewhere till wounded at Amman 27th March, 1918, and invalided to Australia, arriving 18th August. Promoted captain, 10th October, 1915; major, 8th September, 1916. Mentioned in Despatches. Member of the Coronation Contingent, 1937. Early education at The King''s School. Later at St. Paul's College. In November, 1917, he occupied Hill 330, Auja, with 19 men, 15 rifles and two Hotchkiss guns which jammed, and captured 4 officers and 194 men with 4 machineguns, rifles and bombs.—Official History of Australia in the Great War.