OCRd book entry or other narrative
Not listed on Roll of Active Service.
Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force on 3 March 1916, he served (from November) with the 38th Battalion on the Western Front. He was commissioned in May 1917, wounded in action that month and invalided to England; promoted lieutenant in September, he rejoined the battalion three months later. In March 1918, near the Somme, he led a patrol which killed or captured more than thirty enemy soldiers without the loss of any of his men. His A.I.F. commission terminated in Australia on 23 December. [From ADB entry]
