TIMELINE July 1917
Tuesday, 3 July 1917
Private Sidney Stanley CANNON (4th Pioneer Battalion) was placed aboard the 8th Ambulance Train and sent to the 13th General Hospital at Boulogne, France, where he was admitted with a gunshot wound to his right temple [wounded 6th June 1917 at Messines, Belgium].
Private Sidney Stanley Cannon (Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 7/7/1917)
Thursday, 5 July 1917
Private Walter James GOODLET (4th Pioneer Battalion) arrived in Sydney aboard the H.T. Themistocles for medical discharge [amputated arm].
Coo-ees Walter Goodlet (left) and James Birrell Dawson (right), both amputees. Photograph courtesy of James Dawson’s great grandson Jamie Stacey.
Private James Birrell DAWSON (54th Battalion) arrived in Sydney aboard the transport H.T. Themistocles for medical discharge [amputated arm].
Private James MCKEOWN (45th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.T. Themistocles for medical discharge.
Private Louis Henry ATTENBOROUGH (4th Pioneer Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.T. Themistocles for medical discharge [suffering for deafness senility and rheumatism and being over age].
H.M.A.T. Themistocles A32 en route to Australia with wounded Australian soldiers (Photograph from the Australian War Memorial Collection J02941)
Private Thomas William HASKETT (45th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.T. Miltiades for medical discharge [chronic nephritis]
Friday, 6 July 1917
Private Robert Michael HICKEY (13th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit.
Private Ernest Stephen TAYLOUR (45th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.T. Runic for medical discharge [shell shock].
Tuesday, 10 July 1917
Private Joseph William EDWARDS (3rd Battalion) was accidentally wounded in France with a bomb wound to his back and left hand.
Friday, 13 July 1917
Private Sidney Stanley CANNON (4th Pioneer Battalion) was sent by Hospital Ship to England.
Corporal Francis Charles Edward CLARKE (4th Pioneer Battalion) was admitted to the 13th Australian Field Ambulance suffering from disordered action of heart in Belgium.
Saturday, 14 July 1917
Private Sidney Stanley CANNON (4th Pioneer Battalion) was admitted to the Fulham Military Hospital in England.
Sunday, 15 July 1917
Private Darcy KEATING (4th Battalion) was promoted to Lance Corporal.
Lance Corporal Lewis Reginald DUFF (45th Battalion) was promoted to Corporal.
Monday, 16 July 1917
Second Lieutenant Harry DAVENPORT (aka Harry SWENDSON) (4th Battalion) was promoted to Lieutenant in England.
Friday, 20 July 1917
Private Alan John Burnett EASTERBROOK (13th Battalion) arrived in Sydney aboard the transport Wiltshire for medical discharge.
Corporal Francis Charles Edward CLARKE (4th Pioneer Battalion) was transferred to the 2nd Casualty Clearing station.
Private Charles Robert RICHARDSON (2nd ANZAC Cyclist Battalion) arrived in Sydney aboard the H.M.A.T. Ayrshire for medical discharge [gun shot wounds].
Saturday, 21 July 1917
Private Joseph Francis HEALEY (13th Battalion) departed England aboard the H.M.A.T. Euripides for return to Australia [GSW left knee].
Corporal Francis Charles Edward CLARKE (4th Pioneer Battalion) was placed on the 27th Ambulance Train to be taken to Rouen, France.
Sunday, 22 July 1917
Private George SEAMAN (45th Battalion) left England aboard the Transport Nestor bound for Australia for medical discharge [debility after shell shock].
Corporal Francis Charles Edward CLARKE (4th Pioneer Battalion) was admitted to the 5th General Hospital at Rouen.
Monday, 23 July 1917
Corporal Francis Charles Edward CLARKE (4th Pioneer Battalion) was transferred to the 2nd Convalescent Depot at Rouen.
Friday, 27 July 1917
Private Thomas Henry TURVEY MM (45th Battalion) commenced his return to Australia aboard the H.M.A.T. Demosthenes [GSW abdomen received at Messines Ridge in June 1917].
Private T. H. Turvey, of Gilgandra “Coo-ees”, awarded Military Medal (Newspaper unknown, 1917)
Private Harold Roy Devlin UHR re-enlisted in the AIF in Sydney, and was allocated to the 17th Battalion.
Saturday, 28 July 1917
Private Joseph William EDWARDS (3rd Battalion) was placed aboard the hospital ship Warilda for evacuation to England.
Sunday, 29 July 1917
Private Joseph William EDWARDS (3rd Battalion) was admitted to the 3rd Southern General Hospital at Oxford, England [bomb wound back severe].
Tuesday, 31 July 1917
Private James MCKEOWN (45th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [cardiac insufficiency].
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