Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT A9 ‘Shropshire’ 31.3.1916 for Egypt.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 7th Infantry Brigade, 28th Infantry Battalion, 11th Reinforcement
Brockman disembarked in Egypt with the 28th Battalion 11th Reinforcement. He trained at Tel-el-Kebir. His Battalion entrained for Alexandria, joined the British Expeditionary Force and embarked for France per ‘Scotian’ 10.5.1916. They disembarked at Marseilles 18.5.1916. They marched in to the Battalion Base Depot at Rouen. Five weeks later Brockman was hospitalized at No1 General Hospital at Etaples with Disordered Action of the Heart (DAH) a stress reaction. He was transferred per Hospital Ship ‘Newhaven’ from the Auxiliary Hospital Etaples to England 25.5.1916. Brockman was admitted to the No 1 Orpington Military Hospital, Harefield, Middlesex 5.9.1916. He marched in to No 2 Com. Dep. Weymouth from Hospital 28.9.1916 and listed for early return with stress disorder - disordered action of the heart (DAH).
Embarked at Portland for return to Australia for ‘a change’ per HT ‘Ajana’ 17.10.1916.
Returned/Disembarked at Fremantle 30.11.1916.
Discharged 18.3.1917.
Final Rank Private, 28th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.
Medical Condition Invalided (DAH).
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Photos  HMAT 'Shropshire'. Photographer Hazlewood Rex, photograph source AWM P01843.001
              No.1 Australian General Hospital Rouen. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM  E0635
              Orpington Hospital London 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM P00276.008
              

Information Source
AWM P01843.001. HMAT 'Shropshire'. Photographer Hazlewood Rex., photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM E0635. No.1 Australian General Hospital Rouen. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM P00276.00. Orpington Hospital London 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Guildford Primary School Honour Roll
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
Guildford War Memorial
NAA: B2455, Brockman H B 4386
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll Harold Bertie
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