| Family/military connections | Brothers: 7662 Sergeant Alfred Samuel F BEDINGFELD, Australian Army Pay Corps, returned to Australia, 8 April 1918; 14267 Sapper Richard Henry Norman BEDINGFELD, Wireless Signal Squadron, discharged, 13 September 1917; 2587 2nd Air Mechanic Norman BEDINGFELD, 2nd Special Draft, returned to Australia, 6 May 1919. |
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War service: taken on strength, 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment, 27 January 1917. Attached to School of Instruction 25B Hotchkiss Gun Course, 15 April 1917; rejoined unit, having passed as Gunner, 25 April 1917. Taken on strength, 6th Light Horse Regiment, 5 July 1917. Admitted to 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, 23 October 1917 (tonsillitis); transferred to Anzac Recovery Station, Shellal Junction, 24 October 1917; to Hospital Train, 25 October 1917, and admitted to 43rd Stationary Hospital, El Arish, 25 October 1917; transferred to 24th Stationary Hospital, 27 October 1917; discharged to duty, 29 October 1917; rejoined 6th Light Horse Regiment, 23 December 1917. Admitted to 24th Stationary Hospital, Kantara, 11 January 1919 (malaria); transferred to 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia, 19 January 1919. Commenced return to Australia from Suez on board HT 'Margha', 29 January 1919; arrived Melbourne, 5 March 1919, for onward travel by boat to Sydney; discharged (medically unfit), Sydney, 29 May 1919. |
Thomas George Bedingfeld
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