The late Private Albert Sinclair, late of Dunedin, whose death at Dunedin Hospital has just been recorded, after several attempts that were unsuccessful owing to his youth, finally succeeded in getting himself accepted for service in January, 1915, and served for four years and thirty days, of this period three years and thirty-seven days being spent overseas. His service record reads — Balkans, Gallipoli, 1915; Egyptian, 1915-16; Egyptian E.F., 1916; West European, 1916-18. He was invalided from Gallipoli seriously ill with typhoid and dysentery on July 27th, 1915, but was back on the Peninsula before the evacuation. He was wounded in France on July 14th, 1916, and again on September 5th, 1918. Since his return to New Zealand the greater part of his time had been spent at either the Dunedin Hospital or the Montecillo Red Cross Convalescent Home, in consequence of heart trouble developed at the war. -NZ Times, 5/1/1923.
Albert Sinclair was wounded slightly in the hand in July, 1916 and then more seriously - a shrapnel wound in his back - in 1918, near the end of the war. He embarked for New Zealand in December of that year and was discharged the following February. Later in 1919 he was diagnosed with heart trouble and admitted to Dunedin Hospital.
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