Army Casualty Form W3088 : Lance Corporal A H Lee, 3 Machine Gun Company, AIF

Double sided manila Casualty Tag. The following information is printed in very small type at the top of the tag: '1,5000,000. 12/15. JD & Co Ltd. Forma W 3088/2. ARMY FORM W 3088'. The tag is pre-printed on one side with the following information: 'No. ___ General/Stationary Hospital at ___ Regtl No. ___ Date ___ Name ___ Regt or Corps ___ Name of Ship ___'. The blanks have been handwritten in ink in the appropriate spaces: '8/5/17; 3073; L/C Lee, A.H; 9 Aus Infantry (3 M.G.C.)'. The reverse is pre-printed 'Lying Sitting Able to Walk; Diagnosis ___ with Simple/ Compound/ Slight/ Severe Fracture of ____ Notes___ Sgd ___ (The parts not applicable should be struck out)'. Only the word 'Slight' has not been crossed out, and the words 'LW Buttock R' have been written against 'Diagnosis'. The signature of 'F. S. Dutton, Capt, CAMC' appears against the 'Sgd' section. The card has been stamped in purple ink 'Hospital Ship Queen Elizabeth'.

Army Casualty Form issued for 3073 Lance Corporal Albert Henry Lee, a shop assistant, of Brisbane, Queensland. Lee enlisted on 28 July 1915, aged 21, and embarked for overseas service aboard the HMAT Warilia at Brisbane on 5 October 1915. Upon his arrival at Tel-el-Kebir in Egypt in early January 1916, Lee was assigned to 3 Brigade Machine Gun Company where he underwent training before being transferred with his unit to France at the end of March 1916. On 4 April 1917 he was promoted to Lance Corporal; a month later, on 6 May, he suffered a 'severe' shrapnel wound in his right buttock and was transferred to England for six months of treatment and recovery. This card was attached to Lee's clothing as he moved through the hospital system, and it and his Field Medical Card (see REL36887.002) reveal that he was initially treated by 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station and 5th Australian Field Ambulance before being evacuated from France to England aboard the Hospital Ship Queen Elizabeth. He rejoined his unit on 16 October 1917 and was promoted to Corporal. He attended a two week Field Works School course in January 1918 and a three day Corps Gas School course in June 1918. On 10 August 1918, two days aftter the start of the massive Allied August offensive, he was again wounded in action, suffering another severe shrapnel wound, this time to his right shoulder, effectively ending his participation in the remainder of the war. During his hospitalisation, his unit's designation was changed to 1st Machine Gun Battalion. After recovering in England, Lee embarked for Australia on aboard the Dunluce Castle, arriving in Sydney on 18 May 1919. He was discharged from the AIF as 'medically unfit' on 12 July 1919.

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