Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

29/08/1914

Date of Discharge

24/04/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

London, England

Address (at enlistment)

Derwent Street, Glebe NSW (previously Duntroon ACT)

Occupation

Groom

Next of Kin

Miss Warren (sister), Kings Cross, London, England and Albert Warren (brother), Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Service Number

18

Final Rank

Gunner

Final Unit

5 Division Artillery AIF

Warren had been employed as a groom at the Royal Military College, Duntroon since October 1911 when he enlisted on 29 August 1914 in Sydney. He embarked in October 1914 with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade and served on Gallipoli where he received a gun shot wound to his thigh. After treatment in hospital in Cairo, Warren transferred to the 5th Division Artillery Headquarters in March 1916 and arrived in France in June 1916. He was treated for debility and bronchitis the following April and sent to England to convalesce before returning to France and rejoining the 5th Division Artillery in November 1917. Warren received mustard gas burns in May 1918 (probably near Villers-Bretonneux) and was hospitalised in England for treatment. He returned to Australia in April 1919 (on 1914 special leave) and discharged in April 1919. He is shown as being employed at RMC until November 1921. His older brother Albert, who also worked at Duntroon, also served in World War 1.

Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 35-37 inches, dark complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)