We know he was with two regiments during WW1, this was because he was wounded sometime around 1916, his wounds were not severe enough to be shipped back to Blighty, he was therefore transferred to the A.O.C

I am still working on his career but had no luck at the Public Records Office in Kew recently, it seems his records were destroyed in bombing during WW2.

This is a description  of the of the whereabouts of the 1/5th West Surrey Regiment.

4.08.1914. : Guildford, Surrey. Home Counties Division.

August 1914: Maidstone, Kent.

September/October 1914 : Canterbury.

29.10.1914. embarked at Southampton and sailed to India with the Home Counties Division.

02.12.1914 : landed at Bombay and Home Counties Division broken up.

07.12.1915 : arrived Basra in the 34th Indian Brigade.

11.01.1916. to the 12th Indian Brigade/12th Indian Division.

May 1916. the Brigade to the 15th Indian Division.

31.10.1918 : still in the 12th Indian Brigade, 15th Indian Division in Mesopotamia, nr Hilla, South of Bagdad.

Two of the his three medals

Left Medal: British War Medal.  Right Medal: Victory Medal

The Missing Medal is the 1914-15 Star Medal

Embroidery done by his own hand while in Mesopotamia