Spr Henry Kings (Wandin), 13th Field Company Engineers: Is wounded in action, gunshot wound to the right shoulder, and is evacuated to hospital.
After the Battle of Pozieres ended, the AIF were sent to man frontline trenches at various places in Flanders and in the Somme Valley. They would be here during that terrible winter of 1916 – 1917, one of the worst on record, where they had to experience the rain, mud, slush, snow and freezing temperatures that descended upon them.
Out in the open, in trenches full of mud, having to experience shelling and sniper fire, as well as constantly being wet and cold; all of this made life wretched and almost unendurable for the Australian soldiers and casualties mounted.
In the meantime, the Light Horse in the Middle East had crossed the Suez Canal into Turkish controlled Sinai and had taken the village of Romani and would push on into Palestine.