Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT ‘Suffolk’ for UK 13.10.1916 .
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 28th Inf. Bn.
Head disembarked at Plymouth with the 28th Bn. 2.12.1916. After several months of intensive training with the 7th Training Bn. He embarked per ‘Warilda’ for France 25.3.1916. The 28th Bn. fought in the trenches in France through winter and spring. Head was invalided with trench fever 26.6.1917. He was admitted to the Richmond Military Hospital. On discharge, he embarked for France to join his unit 24.10.1917 and rejoined his Bn. in the field 4.11.1917. Head was wounded in action with a GSW to his left leg 12.12.1917. He was transferred to the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, then evacuated to England, where he was admitted to Northampton War Hospital 19.12.1917. Head was transferred to the 1st Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield 8.1.1918 then to the Bde. Hospital at Hurdcott 25.3.1918. Head was detached for duty with AIF HQ 25.2.1919. On demobilisation, he was granted fees only, for a non- military activity -book keeping. He returned to Australia in November 1919.
Embarked UK TS ‘Yipiranga’ for Australia 15.11.1919.
Returned/Disembarked 26.12.1919.
Discharged 9.2.1920.
Final Rank Private, 28th Bn AIF.
Medical Condition NK (wounded)
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Head is thought to have boarded with the Passmore family at 1 Ethel Street as he boarded  ship with their son.
Photos Phil Head c 1916. Photograph Daphne Gill Collection, reproduced courtesy C.Warren
             Phillip Head, 104 Helena Street Guildford c1920 Image reproduced Courtesy D Voorne
             HMAT 'Suffolk' A23 . Postcard from S.M. Curry Collection. Photograph source Don't Forget the Diggers
             Wards at the No.1 General Hospital, Harefield, London 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM H03592

Information Source
AWM E04649. Menin Road. Soldiers marching to the front 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM H03592. Wards at the No.1 General Hospital, Harefield, London 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Roll- Phillip Henry Head
Guildford War Memorial
NAA: B2455, Head P.H.
Phil Head c 1916. Photograph Daphne Gill Collection. sourced and reproduced courtesy C.Warren
Phillip Head, 104 Helena Street Guildford c1920, photograph reproduced Courtesy D.Voorne/ Gill Collection
S.M. Curry Collection-postcard. HMAT Suffolk'. Photograph source Don't Forget the Diggers, http://www.dontforgetthediggers.com.au/galleryImg_large.asp?galID=31&galImgID=202
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
Wise, H. and Co. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

Ethel St. Guildford. WA. (? with Passmore)

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