TIMELINE November 1918

Wednesday, 6 November 1918

Corporal John Edward Leslie HOURIGAN  (45^th Battalion) was promoted to Sergeant in France.

Corporal J. E. L. Hourigan (Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate 12/8/1916)

Friday, 8 November 1918

Private Andrew James MCGREGOR  (2^nd Australian Field Bakery) departed England aboard the HT Gaika bound for Australia for medical discharge.

Andrew James McGregor (Daily Telegraph 22/9/1916)

Monday, 11 November 1918

The guns fell silent, and all fighting ceased on the Western Front at 11.00 am when the Armistice, signed by senior Allied and German representatives in the forest at Compiègne in France earlier that morning, came into effect.

Friday, 15 November 1918

Sapper Henry John KING  (Anzac Mounted Division Signal Squadron) departed Suez Egypt for return to Australia aboard the HT Port Darwin for medical discharge

Tuesday, 19 November 1918

Private Percy Walter HOLPEN  (36^th Battalion) was admitted to the 30th General Hospital at Calais, France, suffering from Influenza.

L. Cpl. W. Holpen, Redfern, Sydney. Died of Illness (Sydney Mail, 8/1/1919)

Tuesday, 26 November 1918

Private Percy Walter HOLPEN  (36^th Battalion) died from Influenza – he was buried at Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Calais.

Percy Walter Holpen’s headstone, Le Baraques Military Cemetery, France (Photograph:S. & H. Thompson 29/8/2016)

Wednesday, 27 November 1918

Private William Laurence HUNT (45^th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the HMAT Runic for medical discharge.

Bill and Jack Hunt. Photograph courtesy of Iain and Judy Macdonald.

Saturday, 30 November 1918

Letter written by Cyril Roy MCMILLAN (45^th Battalion) [ex prisoner of war] on this day was later published in The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate.  Extract: … We were released about two weeks ago.  They just cast us adrift and told us to find our way back.  They never gave us any bread to start with, not even a bite.  Only for the Belgians we should have had hundreds of deaths along the road.  But the Belgians cared for us in every manner possible … We crossed the British lines on the 17th Nov., and we were heartily greeted by our own lads.  Several of us had to go to hospital through sickness.  I am in hospital at present, but will be across to England for Christmas, and hope to be home in Parramatta shortly afterwards’.[1]

Private Roy McMillan (Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 11/5/1918)

[1] ‘German Atrocities. A Parramatta Prisoner’s Story’, The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 18 January 1919, p. 10. Retrieved March 12, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86118958

TIMELINE October 1918

Tuesday, 1 October 1918

Private John William THOMPSON  (54th Battalion) was admitted to the 4th General Hospital at Camiers, France, following being wounded in action for the 2^nd time on 29th September, receiving a gunshot wound to his left hand.

Saturday, 12 October 1918

Private John William THOMPSON  (54th Battalion) was placed aboard a hospital ship for evacuation to England – he was admitted to the Ontario Military Hospital at Oplington, England, later that day.

Saturday, 19 October 1918

Private George EAVERS  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was discharged medically unfit.

Tuesday, 29 October 1918

Private John William THOMPSON  (54th Battalion) was discharged from hospital and granted leave, to report to the No. 4 Command Depot  on 12^th November at Hurdcott, England.

TIMELINE September 1918

Sunday, 1 September 1918

Corporal John MARTIN  (54th Battalion) was killed in action during the successful assault on Peronne, France – he was buried in Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, at Peronne, France.

John Martin’s headstone at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson, 9/9/2016)

Private Jacob Isak PALMGREN  (34th Battalion) who had been  wounded in action for a second time in France with a gunshot wound to his nose on 31^st August 1918, was admitted to the 2^nd General Hospital in Le Havre, France, then was transferred to the No. 1 Convalescent Depot at Le Havre on 7^th September 1918.

Tuesday, 3 September 1918

Second Lieutenant Thomas Walter DOWD (2^nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion) was wounded in action with a gunshot wound to the face and hands.  He was admitted to the 5^th Field Ambulance suffering shrapnel wounds to the face and hand. He was moved back to the 53^rd Casualty Clearing Station, then to the 20^th General Hospital, at Camiers, France.

Lance Corporal William John SHANNON (4th Pioneer Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [Hallux Valgus].

Friday, 6 September 1918

Private Alfred WARDROP  (45th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [amputation left leg].

Alfred Wardrop (Courtesy of Gary Wardrop)

Thursday, 12 September 1918

Private Jacob Isak PALMGREN  (34th Battalion) was discharged from No. 1 Convalescent Depot at Le Havre.

Wednesday, 18 September 1918

Private Bernard COYTE (13th Battalion) was killed in action during an attack launched by the 13th Battalion on the German lines south of the village of Le Verguier, France – he was buried at the nearby Jean Court Communal Cemetery Extesion.

Bernard Coyte, ca. 1915 (Photograph: Australian War Memorial P09199.001)

Private B. Coyte’s headstone at Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson, 9/9/2016)

Gunner  James TAYLOR (4th Field Artillery Brigade) was wounded in action with  gunshot wounds to his thighs – he was moved back to an Australian Field Ambulance, then to the 20th Casualty Clearing Station. He was then placed aboard the 3rd Ambulance Train and moved to a hospital in Rouen France, where he was admitted on 19th September 1918.

Sergeant James Gerald CAMERON (45th Battalion) for his action on this day during an attack west of Bellenglise in France, was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

James Gerald Cameron (Photograph courtesy of his grandson Dennis Richards)

Private Edgar Lewis CUDDEFORD (45th Battalion) for his action on this day as a runner during an attack in the vicinity of Le Verguier in France, was subsequently awarded the Military Medal.

Friday, 20 September 1918

Second Lieutenant Thomas Walter DOWD (2^nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion) was discharged from the 20^th General Hospital, at Camiers, France.

Saturday, 21 September 1918

Gunner James TAYLOR (4th Field Artillery Brigade) was placed aboard a hospital ship for evacuation to England.

Sunday, 22 September 1918

Gunner James TAYLOR (4th Field Artillery Brigade) was admitted to the Alexandria Hospital at Cosham, England, with a severe gunshot wound to the thigh.

Monday, 23 September 1918

Private William Laurence HUNT (45th Battalion) departed England aboard the H.M.A.T. Runic for return to Australia for medical discharge.

Bill and Jack Hunt (Photograph courtesy of Iain and Judy Macdonald)

Friday, 27 September 1918

Private George DAVIDSON  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [deformity to the left elbow].

Saturday, 28 September 1918

Private Percy Frederick COOPER  (45th Battalion) was promoted to Lance Corporal.

Sunday, 29 September 1918

Private John William THOMPSON  (54th Battalion) was wounded in action in France for a second time with a gunshot wound to his left hand – he was sent to a Field Ambulance, then to the 30th Casualty Clearing Station.

TIMELINE August 1918

Thursday, 1 August 1918

Lance Corporal William John SHANNON  (4th Pioneer Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.M.A.T. Essex for medical discharge.

Private George EAVERS  (4th Pioneer Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.M.A.T. Essex for medical discharge.

Saturday, 3 August 1918

Private William Charles ELLERY  (45th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [chronic rheumatic arthritis].

Sunday, 11 August 1918

Corporal Alfred Fletcher MCLEAN (2^nd Divisional Artillery Column) was wounded in action near Warfusee-Abancourt in France  with a gunshot wound to his neck. He was sent to the 5^th Australian Field Ambulance.

Monday, 12 August 1918

Corporal Alfred Fletcher MCLEAN (2^nd Divisional Artillery Column) was admitted to the 55^th Casualty Clearing Station.

Tuesday, 13 August 1918

Corporal Alfred Fletcher MCLEAN (2^nd Divisional Artillery Column) was admitted to the No. 11 Stationary Hospital at Rouen, France.

Private William CAIRNS  (13th Battalion) was discharged in Sydney medically unfit [trachoma].

Monday, 19 August 1918

Corporal Alfred Fletcher MCLEAN (2^nd Divisional Artillery Column) was evacuated to England on a hospital ship.

Private Albert DENZEL (45^th Battalion) for his action manning a Lewis gun in the vicinity of Lihons, France, was subsequently awarded a Military Medal.

Tuesday, 20 August 1918

Corporal Alfred Fletcher MCLEAN (2^nd Divisional Artillery Column) was admitted to the Bath War Hospital in England.

Wednesday, 21 August 1918

Private William Allan Luther PHILPOTT  (69 Squadron Australian Flying Corps) was discharged medically unfit [D.A.H.].

Private William Henry GRIFFITHS  (Australian Motor Transport Service) married Miss Kathleen Spires at Christ Church, Chelsea, England.

Friday, 23 August 1918

Private Jacob Isak PALMGREN (34^th Battalion) was slightly wounded in action when the 34^th Battalion was in the line near Vaire-sous-Corbie, France. He remained on duty with the Battalion.

Saturday, 31 August 1918

Private Jacob Isak PALMGREN (34th Battalion) was wounded in action for a second time with a gunshot wound to his nose, when the 34^th Battalion was attacking along the Somme River between Bray and Curlu, France.  He was admitted to the 53rd Casualty Clearing Station.

TIMELINE July 1918

Friday, 5 July 1918

Private Thomas ANDERSON (13th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [ankylosis right thumb].

Sunday, 7 July 1918

Private George EAVERS  (4th Pioneer Battalion) departed England aboard the transport Essex for return to Australia for medical discharge.

Wednesday, 10 July 1918

Lance James MAHER  (45th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit gunshot wound to his left ankle [tarsus C. fracture].

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

Sunday, 14 July 1918

Private Frank BLACK  (42nd Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [chronic rheumatism].

Monday, 15 July 1918

Corporal Lewis Reginald DUFF  (45th Battalion) was promoted to Sergeant.

Saturday, 20 July 1918

Private Sidney Stanley CANNON  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [gunshot wound, right ankle debility and tachycardia].

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

Friday, 26 July 1918

Lance Corporal John Graham WATSON  (13th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [nephritis gas poisoning].

TIMELINE June 1918

Saturday, 1 June 1918

Lance Corporal Thomas Walter DOWD (19th Battalion) was appointed as Second Lieutenant and was posted to Machine Gun Corps Reinforcements for the 2^nd Machine Gun Battalion.

Private Thomas ANDERSON  (13th Battalion) arrived in Australia Sydney aboard the H.T. Borda for medical discharge.

Private Jacob Joseph Jacob John HERRINGE  (13th Battalion) was evacuated to England aboard the hospital ship Princess Elizabeth suffering trench fever, and was admitted to the Reading Military Hospital later that day.

Joseph Herringe and his mother Bridget Herringe (Photograph courtesy Marie Cribbin)

Sunday, 2 June 1918

Private Leslie Webster GREENLEAF  (13th Battalion) was placed aboard the 39th Ambulance Train, after being wounded on 20^th May with a bomb wound to his left arm in the vicinity of Villers-Bretonneux.

Monday, 3 June 1918

Private Leslie Webster GREENLEAF  (13th Battalion) was evacuated to England by Hospital Ship Panama (gunshot wound left arm).

Tuesday, 4 June 1918

Private Leslie Webster GREENLEAF  (13th Battalion) was admitted to the Kitchener Military Hospital at Brighton, England.

Lance Corporal William Henry PEPPERNELL  (33^rd Battalion) was wounded in action for a second time,  in the vicinity of Villers-Bretonneux, receiving a flesh wound to this left arm, and was sent to the 10^th Australia Field Ambulance,  then moved to the 5th Casualty Clearing Station.

Friday, 7 June 1918

Private Walter CAVILL  (55^th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.M.A.T. Suevic  for medical discharge.

Tuesday, 8 June 1918

Lance Corporal William Henry PEPPERNELL  (33^rd Battalion) was admitted to the 12th General Hospital at Rouen, France.

Monday, 10 June 1918

Private Joseph PARRISH  (4^th Machine Gun Battalion) was wounded in action in the vicinity of Villers-Bretonneux, where he received a gunshot wound to his neck, and was take to the 4th Australian Field Ambulance, and later that day taken to the 61^st Casualty Clearing Station.

Lance Corporal William Henry PEPPERNELL  (33^rd Battalion) was evacuated to England aboard the HS Grantully Castle.

Tuesday, 11 June 1918

Private Leslie Webster GREENLEAF  was transferred to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield, England.

Private Joseph PARRISH  (4^th Machine Gun Battalion) was placed aboard the 17^th Ambulance Train to be taken to the 53^rd General Hospital at Boulogne, France.

Lance Corporal William Henry PEPPERNELL  (33^rd Battalion) was admitted to the Horton County of London War Hospital at Epsom.

Wednesday, 12 June 1918

Private Joseph PARRISH (4^th Machine Gun Battalion) was admitted to the 53^rd General Hospital at Boulogne, France, with a gunshot wound to his neck, where he was also diagnosed with bronchial pneumonia.

Private Charles Henry MAIDENS  (13^th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.M.A.T. Marathon for medical discharge.

Thursday, 13 June 1918

Private Leslie Webster GREENLEAF was discharged from hospital on leave from 13^th June 1918, to report to No. 1 Command Depot at Sutton Veny on 27^th June 1918.

Friday, 14 June 1918

Private William Charles ELLERY (45^th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.T. Dunvegan Castle for medical discharge.

Saturday, 22 June 1918

Lieutenant John Robert LEE (21^st Battalion) was discharged medically unfit.

Lieutenant J. R. Lee (Sydney Mail, 3/3/1920)

Monday, 24 June 1918

Private Andrew James MCGREGOR  (2^nd Australian Field Bakery) was admitted to hospital with sclerosis spinal cord.

Andrew James McGregor (Daily Telegraph 22/9/1916)

Wednesday, 26 June 1918

Lance Corporal William Henry PEPPERNELL  (33^rd Battalion) was transferred to the 3^rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Dartford, England.

Thursday, 27 June 1918

Private Joseph PARRISH  (4^th Machine Gun Battalion) died of wounds at the 53^rd General Hospital, Boulogne.  He was  buried in the Terlincthun British Cemetery, France.

Joseph Parrish’s headstone at Terlincthun British Cemetery, France (Photograph: H. Thompson 5/9/2014)

Lance William John SHANNON (4th Pioneer Battalion) departed England aboard the H.M.A.T. Essex bound for Australia for medical discharge.

Sunday, 30 June 1918

Private Andrew James MCGREGOR  was evacuated to hospital in England on 30^th June 1918 (sclerosis spinal cord).

TIMELINE May 1918

Thursday, 2 May 1918

Sergeant James Gerald CAMERON (45^th Battalion) was wounded in action with a gunshot wound to his left shoulder during fighting around Villers-Bretonneux, and he was sent to the 12^th Australian Field Ambulance.

James Gerald Cameron (Photograph courtesy of his grandson Dennis Richards)

On the 2nd of May 1918 Private Jacob Isak PALMGREN (34th Battalion) was admitted to the 3^rd Stationary Hospital at Rouen with Influenza.

Lance Corporal Reginald Henry CHAMBERLAIN (35th Battalion) was moved back to the 12th Casualty Clearing Station (after being gassed in the vicinity of Morlancourt, France, on 30^th April 1918).

Private Leslie Webster GREENLEAF (13^th Battalion) was with his Battalion defending Villers-Bretonneux when he undertook an action for which he was recommended for (and subsequently awarded with) the Military Medal. The citation read: ‘East of Villers-Bretonneux on the morning of the 2nd May, 1918, when an officer was severely wounded by M.G. fire and lay within full view of the enemy, Privates Greenleaf and Smith went to his assistance and carried him in at great personal risk. With the assistance of two other men they improvised a stretcher squad, and, as the case was a serious one, carried through with it to the Regimental Aid Post. This was done in broad day light, and practically the whole route was under observation of enemy snipers who were very active.’

Friday, 3 May 1918

Sergeant James Gerald CAMERON (45^th Battalion) was evacuated to the 61st Casualty Clearing Station.

Corporal John MARTIN (54^th Battalion) was sent to Hospital in England aboard a hospital ship, (with a gunshot wound to the chest he received on 24^th April 1918 in the vicinity of  Villers-Bretonneux, France).

Saturday, 4 May 1918

Corporal John MARTIN (54^th Battalion) was admitted to the 5^th Southern General Hospital at Portsmouth, England.

Sergeant James Gerald CAMERON (45^th Battalion) was admitted to the 1^st Canadian General Hospital.

Private Thomas ANDERSON  (13^th Battalion) departed Cape Town, South Africa, aboard the H.T. Borda, bound for Australia for medical discharge.

Private Charles Edward BOW (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was discharged from the A.I.F. in Sydney medically unfit (chronic bronchitis).

Sunday, 5 May 1918

Lance Corporal Reginald Henry CHAMBERLAIN (35th Battalion) was moved to the 3^rd Australian General Hospital at Abbeville, France.

Monday, 6 May 1918

Lance Corporal Frederick Graham HARVEY (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was sent to the 12^th Australian Field Ambulance in France suffering from bronchitis, and he was moved to the 61^st Casualty Clearing Station later that day.

Private Jacob Isak PALMGREN (34^th Battalion) was discharged from the 3^rd Stationary Hospital at Rouen and transferred to No. 2 Convalescent Depot at Rouen, then moved the next day to the No. 1 Convalescent Depot at Rouelles, France (recovering from influenza).

Tuesday, 7 May 1918

Trooper William Henry NICHOLLS (7^th Light Horse Regiment) was one of those killed when eight enemy aeroplanes bombed the camp of the Regiment at Jericho, Palestine.

Lance Corporal Frederick Graham HARVEY (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was placed aboard the 27^th Ambulance Train in France.

Wednesday, 8 May 1918

Lance Corporal Frederick Graham HARVEY (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was admitted to the 6^th General Hospital at Rouen, France (bronchitis).

Thursday, 9 May 1918

Private Jack Graham WIGGINS (45^th Battalion)  was discharged from hospital  in England (following being wounded in action receiving a shrapnel wound to his left thigh on 28^th March 1918).

Pte. J. Wiggins (Sunday Times, 8/10/1916, p. 9)

Friday, 10 May 1918

Lance Corporal Reginald Henry CHAMBERLAIN (35^th Battalion) was placed aboard a Hospital Train and taken to the coast in France.

Saturday, 11 May 1918

Lance Corporal Reginald Henry CHAMBERLAIN (35^th Battalion) was evacuated to England by Hospital Ship, and admitted to the Whipps Cross Hospital at Leytonstone, England, on the same day.

Sunday, 12 May 1918

Lance Corporal Frederick Graham HARVEY (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was placed aboard the Hospital Ship Grantully Castle for evacuation to England (bronchitis).

Monday, 13 May 1918

Lance Corporal Frederick Graham HARVEY (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was admitted to the Winchester General Military Hospital in England.

Wednesday, 15 May 1918

Corporal John MARTIN (54^th Battalion) was transferred to the 3^rd Auxiliary Hospital at Dartford, England.

Private Cyril Roy MCMILLAN  (45^th Battalion) (who had been reported Missing In Action on 5^th April 1918 when the 45^th Battalion had been in action around Dernacourt, France), was reported to be a Prisoner of War.

Private Roy McMillan (Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 11/5/1918)

Friday, 17 May 1918

On 17th May 1918 Private Jacob Isak PALMGREN (34^th Battalion) was discharged from hospital.

Corporal John MARTIN (54^th Battalion) was discharged from hospital and went on leave reporting back to the 4th Convalescent Depot at Hurdcott, England, on 31^st May 1918.

Private Jacob Isak PALMGREN (34th Battalion) was moved from the No. 1 Convalescent Depot at Rouelles where he had been recovering from Influenza  to the Australian Infantry  Base Depot on  Havre, France.

Monday, 20 May 1918

Private Leslie Webster GREENLEAF (13^th Battalion) was wounded in action for a second time in the vicinity of Villers-Bretonneux, with a bomb wound to his left arm.  He was admitted to the 13^th Australian Field Ambulance, the taken to the 47^th Casualty Clearing Station.

Trooper Joe BILLING (7^th Light Horse Regiment) was sent to the Australian Rest Station at Jericho, Palestine, suffering malaria.

Tuesday, 21 May 1918

Trooper Joe BILLING (7^th Light Horse Regiment) was moved back to the 65^th Casualty Clearing Station, then the 75^th Casualty Clearing Station at Jerusalem (sick with malaria).

Sergeant James Gerald CAMERON (45^th Battalion) was transferred to the 1^st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield, England.

Wednesday, 22 May 1918

Private Norman Hamond FRANCISCO (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was wounded  when his Battalion was bombed by enemy aircraft when it was  in billets around the  village of Busy, France, receiving a bomb wound to his leg.  He was sent to the 4^th Australian Field Ambulance.

Private Charles CREASE  (13^th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.T.  Field Marshall  for medical discharge.

Private Charles Crease (Sunday Times 8/10/1916)

3^rd Air Mechanic William Allan Luther PHILPOTT  (69^th Squadron, Australian Flying Corps) arrived in Australia aboard H.M.A.T. Field Marshall for medical discharge.

Thursday, 23 May 1918

Trooper Joe BILLING (7^th Light Horse Regiment) was moved back by Hospital Train to the 47^th Stationary Hospital at Gaza (sick with malaria).

Private Norman Hamond FRANCISCO (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was moved back to the 5^th Casualty Clearing Station.

Private Leslie Webster GREENLEAF (13^th Battalion) was admitted to the 47^th General Hospital at Le Treport, France.

Friday, 24 May 1918

Lieutenant John Robert LEE (21^st Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.M.A.T.  Kanowna for medical discharge.

Lieutenant J. R. Lee (Sydney Mail, 3/3/1920)

Lance Corporal John Graham WATSON (13^th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.M.A.T.  Kanowna for medical discharge.

Saturday, 25 May 1918

Private Joseph Jacob John HERRINGE  (13^th Battalion) was sent to the 4^th Australian Field Ambulance in France suffering pyrexia, then was moved back to the 61^st Casualty Clearing Station later that day.

Joseph Herringe and his mother Bridget Herringe (Photograph courtesy Marie Cribbin)

Sunday, 26 May 1918

Private Joseph Jacob John HERRINGE  (13^th Battalion) was placed aboard the 20^th Ambulance Train, and evacuated to the 56^th General Hospital at Etaples, France, where he was admitted the next day (where  he was later diagnosed with trench fever).

Monday, 27 May 1918

Lance Corporal Reginald Henry CHAMBERLAIN  (35^th Battalion) was transferred to the 1^st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield, England.

Private Norman Hamond FRANCISCO (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was placed aboard the 10^th Ambulance Train and admitted to the 47^th General Hospital later that day (bomb wound to his right leg).

Tuesday, 28 May 1918

Trooper Leslie SULLIVAN (17^th Company of the Imperial Camel Corps) was promoted to Lance Corporal in Egypt.

Wednesday, 29 May 1918

Lance Corporal Reginald Henry CHAMBERLAIN  (35^th Battalion) was discharged from hospital and granted leave to report to the No. 4 Command Depot at Hurdcott, England, on 12^th June 1918.

Trooper Joe BILLING (7^th Light Horse Regiment) was transferred from the 47^th Stationary Hospital at Gaza to the 24th Stationary Hospital at Kantara, Egypt (sick with malaria).

Thursday, 30 May 1918

Trooper Joe BILLING (7^th Light Horse Regiment) was transferred to the 14^th Australian General Hospital at Abbassia, Egypt (sick with malaria).

TIMELINE April 1918

Monday, 1 April 1918

Private Jack Graham WIGGINS  [45th Battalion) was placed aboard the Hospital Ship Ville de Liege for evacuation to England, where he was admitted to the Norfolk War Hospital (after being  wounded  in action on 28th March 1918 with a shrapnel wound to his left thigh).

Pte. J. Wiggins (Sunday Times, 8/10/1916, p. 9)

Tuesday, 2 April 1918

Lance Corporal Laurence Leslie MAGUIRE (45th Battalion) was killed in action during a German artillery barrage when manning the line against the German offensive near Dernacourt, France,  on 2nd April 1918. He has no known grave.

Lance Corporal Maguire’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)

Trooper David James O’ROURKE  (12th Light Horse Regiment) was part of a watering party at Jaffa, Palestine, when a horse kicked him in the left knee, and he was sent to the 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance.

David James O’Rourke. Photograph courtesy of Warren O’Rourke.

Wednesday, 3 April 1918

Trooper David James O’ROURKE  (12th Light Horse Regiment) was sent to the 43rd Stationary Hospital.

Thursday, 4 April 1918

Private John Herbert WATTS  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was sent to the 4th Australian Field Ambulance suffering from Influenza. He was later transferred to the 56th General Hospital in France.

Friday, 5 April 1918

Sergeant Sydney Raymond CARVER  (45th Battalion) was wounded in action for a second time in the vicinity of Dernacourt, France, during the Second Battle of Dernacourt, with a gunshot wound to his abdomen, and was sent to the 13th Australian Field Ambulance, then moved back the 29th Casualty Clearing Station.

Private Cyril Roy MCMILLAN  (45th Battalion) was reported missing in action in the vicinity of Dernacourt, France, during the Second Battle of Dernacourt – he was  captured as a prisoner of war.

Private Roy McMillan (Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 11/5/1918)

Private John Thomas SMITH  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was wounded in action in the vicinity of Henencourt Wood, France, by an artillery shell.

Trooper David James O’ROURKE  (12th Light Horse Regiment) was transferred to the 44th Stationary Hospital at Kantara, Egypt.

Saturday, 6 April 1918

Private William WEBBER  (45th Battalion) was killed in action in the vicinity of Dernacourt, France, when an artillery shell burst in the trench he was manning.

Private John Thomas SMITH  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was transferred to the 22nd General Hospital at Camiers, France .

Trooper David James O’ROURKE  (12th Light Horse Regiment) was transferred to the 14th Australian General Hospital at Port Said, Egypt.

Sergeant Sydney Raymond CARVER (45th Battalion)  was placed aboard the 27th Ambulance Train.

Sunday, 7 April 1918

Sergeant Sydney Raymond CARVER  (45th Battalion)  was placed aboard the 27th Ambulance Train and then admitted to the 7th Canadian General Hospital WHERE.

Monday, 8 April 1918

Private John Thomas SMITH  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was sent by hospital ship to England.

Tuesday, 9 April 1918

Private John Thomas SMITH  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was admitted to the Dorset County Hospital at Dorchester.

Thursday, 11 April 1918

Private John William THOMPSON  (54th Battalion) was wounded in action with a shrapnel would to his left hand.

Friday, 12 April 1918

Private John William THOMPSON  (54th Battalion) was admitted to the 12th General Hospital at Rouen, France.

Saturday, 13 April 1918

Private John William THOMPSON  (54th Battalion) was sent to the 5th Australian Division Base Depot at Le Havre, France.

Monday, 15 April 1918

Private Frank BLACK  (42nd Battalion) departed England aboard the transport Marathon for return to Australia for medical discharge.

Private Charles Henry MAIDENS  (13th Battalion) departed England aboard the Transport Marathon for return to Australia for medical discharge.

Tuesday, 16 April 1918

Private John Herbert WATTS  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was evacuated to England, and admitted to the Northampton Hospital, suffering Trench Fever.

Sunday, 21 April 1918

Private Walter CAVILL (55th Battalion) departed England aboard the Transport Suvic for return to Australia suffering Trench Fever.

Tuesday, 23 April 1918

Private John Thomas SMITH  (4th Pioneer Battalion) died of wounds  at the Dorset County Hospital at Dorcherster.

Wednesday, 24 April 1918

Private Percy George BROWN  (54th Battalion) was wounded in action, being gassed in the vicinity of Villers Bretonneux, France, during the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux.

Corporal John MARTIN  (54th Battalion) was wounded in action in the vicinity of Villers Bretonneux with a gunshot wound to his chest, during the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. He was taken to the 15th Australian Field Ambulance.

Thursday, 25 April 1918

Private Percy George BROWN  (54th Battalion) was sent to the 10th General Hospital, at Rouen.

Corporal John MARTIN  (54th Battalion)  was moved back to the 61st Casualty Clearing Station, then onto the 10th General Hospital at Rouen, France.

Sergeant Sydney Raymond CARVER  (45th Battalion)  was placed aboard the Hospital Ship Princess Elizabeth for evacuation to England.

Friday, 26 April 1918

Driver Peter WILSON  (1st Field Engineers Squadron) was injured when he was thrown from a pontoon wagon at Jerusalem, Palestine.

Sergeant Sydney Raymond CARVER  (45th Battalion)  was admitted to a hospital in England.

Saturday, 27 April 1918

Private John Thomas SMITH  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was buried at Melcomb Regis Cemetery in Weymouth, England, with full military honours.

John Thomas Smith’s headstone at Melcombe Regis Cemetery, Weymouth, England (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 14/9/2016)

Sunday, 28 April 1918

Private Percy George BROWN  (54th Battalion) was sent to the 73rd General Hospital at Trouville, France.

Private William Allan Luther PHILPOTT  (13th Battalion) departed Durban, South Africa, on the H.M.A.T. Field Marshall, bound for Australia, for medical discharge.

Private Charles CREASE  (13th Battalion) departed Cape Town South Africa aboard the H.M.A.T. Field Marshall for return to Australia, for medical discharge.

Private Charles Crease (Sunday Times 8/10/1916)

Tuesday, 30 April 1918

Lance Corporal Reginald Henry CHAMBERLAIN  (35th Battalion)  was wounded in action, being gassed, while manning the front line in the vicinity of Morlancourt, France, and he was evacuated to the 9th Australian Field Ambulance.

Private John Herbert WATTS  (4th Pioneer Battalion) was transferred to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield.

TIMELINE March 1918

Saturday, 2 March 1918

Lance Corporal Henry MOSS (45th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [gunshot wound to his left arm, compound fracture to the humerus].

Sunday, 3 March 1918

Private John Thomas PARKER (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was moved to the 2^nd Casualty Clearing Station with Pyrexia.

Monday, 4 March 1918

Private George Elsie EWENS (45th Battalion) was discharged medically unfit [gunshot wound to his groin].

Pte. George Ewens, of Manduarama (Evening News, 20/11/1917)

Wednesday, 6 Mach 1918

Private John Thomas PARKER (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was placed aboard the 19^th Ambulance Train and admitted to the 55^th General Hospital at Boulogne suffering trench fever.

Thursday, 7 March 1918

Private Alfred WARDROP (45th Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.T. Corinth for medical discharge.

Alfred Wardrop (Courtesy of Gary Wardrop)

Sunday, 10 March 1918

Private Thomas ANDERSON (13th Battalion) departed England aboard the transport Durham Castle bound for Australia for medical discharge.

Tuesday, 12 March 1918

Lieutenant John Robert LEE (21st Battalion) left England aboard the transport Kenilworth Castle to commence his return to Australia for medical discharge.

Lieutenant J. R. Lee (Sydney Mail, 3/3/1920)

Private Charles CREASE (13th Battalion) left England aboard the transport Kenilworth Castle bound for Australia for medical discharge.

Private Charles Crease (Sunday Times 8/10/1916)

Private William Allan Luther PHILPOTT (13th Battalion) departed England aboard the transport Kenilworth Castle bound for Australia for medical discharge.

Private William Henry PEPPERNELL (36th Battalion) was promoted to Lance Corporal.

Wednesday, 13 March 1918

Private William Charles ELLERY (45th Battalion) departed England aboard the H.T. Dunvegan Castle bound for Australia for medical discharge.

Private John Thomas PARKER (4^th Pioneer Battalion) was placed aboard the H.S. Cambria and evacuated to England, and admitted to the Tankerton Military Hospitable at Whitstable, with Trench Fever.

Saturday, 16 March 1918

Lance Corporal John Graham WATSON (13th Battalion) departed England aboard the transport Kanowna bound for Australia for medical discharge.

Thursday, 21 March 1918

Private Charles Edward BOW (4th Pioneer Battalion) arrived in Australia aboard the H.T. Euripides for medical discharge.

Private Frederick Graham HARVEY (MM) (4th Pioneer Battalion) was promoted to Lance Corporal.

Thursday, 28 March 1918

Private Jack Graham WIGGINS [45th Battalion) was wounded in action for a second time in the vicinity of Dernacourt, France, with a shrapnel wound to his left thigh.

Pte. J. Wiggins (Sunday Times, 8/10/1916, p. 9)

Friday, 29 March 1918

Private Jack Graham WIGGINS [45th Battalion) was moved to the 56^th Casualty Clearing Station, then admitted to the 20^th General Hospital at Camiers, France.

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].