Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

01/09/1914

Date of Discharge

26/06/1919

Place of Enlistment

Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

London, England

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Coachman

Next of Kin

Sarah Malton (sister), Kings Cross, London, England

Service Number

13

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

Headquarters Staff 3 Infantry Brigade AIF

Meritorious Service Medal (Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, 3 June 1919; location page 940, position 89)

Warren was an Englishman who worked as a groom at the Royal Military College, Duntroon from 1911 until he enlisted in August 1914 at 42 years of age. He joined the 3rd Brigade Headquarters under Brigadier Sinclair-Maclagan and landed on Gallipoli in April 1915. He served as a batman to Sinclair-Maclagan in Gallipoli, France and Flanders and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal "in recognition of valuable services" rendered. He went with Sinclair-Maclagan when he became commander of the 4th Division of the AIF in July 1917. Warren was demobilised in London on 26 June 1919 but returned to Australia later. His brother Charles Warren also served in World War 1.

Description - height 5 feet 7½ inches, weight 134½ pounds, chest 35-37½ inches, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England, mole on the left cheek and right side of his throat.

Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Queanbeyan Age - 19 September 1916
AWM Honours & Awards
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)