TIMELINE February 1918

Friday, 8 February 1918

Sapper Samuel Mathew TANCRED (Engineer Depot, Sydney) was discharged medically unfit [tachycardia probably due to excessive cigarette smoking].

‘S. Tancred’, in The Queenslander Pictorial (p. 26), supplement to The Queenslander, 23 February 1918. Photograph courtesy of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Image number: 702692-19180223-s0026-0048. http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/415959

Thursday, 14 February 1918

Private Sidney Stanley CANNON (4th Pioneer Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the Transport Runic for medical discharge.

Private Sidney Stanley Cannon (Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 7/7/1917)

Private William CAIRNS (13th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the Transport Runic for medical discharge.

Saturday, 16 February 1918

Lance Corporal James MAHER (45th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the Hospital Ship Kanowa for medical discharge.

James Maher, 1915 (Photograph courtesy of L. Leo)

Wednesday, 20 February 1918

Private Reginald Henry CHAMBERLAIN (35th Battalion) was promoted to Lance Corporal.

Thursday, 21 February 1918

Private Richard EVANS (13th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [defective vision].