Military History

Warn enlisted for Home Service 29.9.1916 and given SN 2965. He was discharged as permanently unfit with rheumatism 27.9.1916. He re enlisted a second time 9.1.1917 with the 3rd Railways Operations Coy. and given a new service number SN 1069.
Embarked Fremantle per ‘Miltiades’ A29 for UK.29.1.1917
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 3rd Railway Operations Corps Special Draft.
Warn disembarked at Devonport, UK 27.3.1917. He marched in to St. Lucia Barracks, Australian Railways Operation Depot at Borden. After a period of training, he proceeded overseas to France from Southampton 11.5.1917. Warn became ill and was taken to the 46th Casualty Clearing Station, then was evacuated to England and was admitted to hospital (hydrocele) 23.6.1917.  On recovery, Warn was transferred as Sapper to 5th Australian Broad Gauge Rail Operations Coy. (ABGROC) 16.8.1917 and marched into the Railways Operation Division (ROD) in France. He took leave in England and was admitted to Brook War Hospital, Woolwich, sick with influenza and a debility 11.7.1918. Warn transferred to the 3rd Auxiliary Hospital Dartford 2.8.1918. He marched in to No. 2 Command Depot at Weymouth 30.8.1918 and was listed for early return to Australia as an invalid with chronic rheumatism
Embarked from England per HT ‘Marathon’ A27 for Australia 22.11.1918.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 21.12.1918.
Discharged 5.2.1919.
Final Rank Sapper, 5th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operational Corps (ABGROC).
Medical Condition Invalided with chronic rheumatism.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Photos  HMAT 'Miltiades'. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM P08559.001
              St. Lucia Barracks, Borden, Hampshire WW1. Postcard WHS Kingsway
              Brook War Hospital, Greenwich c 1915. Photograph source-post card Greenwich Heritage Trust
              HMAT 'Marathon'. Photgrapher unknown. Photograph source AWM H00329.

Information Source
AWM P08559.001. HMAT 'Miltiades'. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM H00329. HMAT 'Marathon.' Photgrapher unknown, photograph source Pictorial Collection Australian War Memorial, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H00329
AWM Embarkation Rolls John Warn.Guildford Primary School Honour Roll,
Greenwich Heritage Trust. Brook War Hospital, Greenwich c 1915. Photograph source-post card
Kingsway WHS. St. Lucia Barracks, Borden, Hampshire WW1. Postcard by WHS Kingsway
NAA: B2455, Warn John,


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