Moeraki then transfer to Boora at Melbourne for Suez.

War service: Egypt, Palestine
Embarked Wellington, 15 February 1917; disembarked Sydney, 19 February 1917; embarked Melbourne on board HMAT 'Borda', 10 May 1917; admitted to ship's hospital at sea, 9 June 1917 (mumps); discharged, 17 June 1917; disembarked Suez, 20 June 1917.
Marched in to Training Regiment, posted to New Zealand Veterinary Corps, and returned to rank of Private, 20 June 1917.
Transferred to No 2 Mobile Veterinary Section, 30 July 1917.
Attached for duty to Brigade Headquarters, 6 October 1917.
Wounded in action, 31October 1917 (gun shot wound, left thigh); transferred by Hospital Train to 45th Stationary Hospital, 1 November 1917; transferred to 44th Stationary Hospital, 2 November 1917; to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, 3 November 1917; to Aotea Convalescent Hospital, Heliopolis, 23 November 1917; discharged to duty, 6 December 1917.
Admitted to Desert Mounted Corps Rest Camp, Port Said, 7 December 1917; rejoined Training Regiment, 22 December 1917; posted to No 2 Mobile Veterinary Section, 6 February 1918.
Appointed Temporary Veterinary Corporal, 20 February 1918; relinquished appointment, 24 August 1918.
Transferred to New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, 19 August 1918.
Admitted to New Zealand Mounted Field Ambulance, 20 October 1918 (pyrexia, unknown origin); transferred to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, 23 October 1918 (malaria); discharged to duty, 13 November 1918.
Medically boarded for return to New Zealand, 3 December 1918.
Commenced return to New Zaland from Suez on board HT 'Wiltshire', 26 December 1918; discharged (no longer fit for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service), 1 August 1919.
Total war service: 3 years 32 days (of which 1 year 355 days was abroad).

Died, Dunedin Hospital, 30 May 1926, of suppurative otitis media following mastoid operation and heart failure. AWMM