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Not listed in the Book of Remembrance. Joined the Australian Army Medical Corps reserve in 1908, gazetted Captain and attached to 40th (Western Suburbs, Sydney) Company, in August 1909. In September 1914 he was appointed officer commanding that company, which in March 1915 took up duties at Liverpool military camp.
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Following allegations in Federal parliament, Justice (Sir) George Rich, as royal commissioner, inquired into conditions at Liverpool and reported inter alia that 'the impropriety and inexpediency' of appointing an officer of German parentage was 'so apparent as to call for no comment'. Despite Schlink's declarations of loyalty he was immediately removed from the camp. Although remaining on the officers' list until 1919, he felt he had suffered 'political assassination', especially as a brother was interned in Germany as an alien.From ADB entry