He was sent from Malta to England on board the Hospital Ship Transylvania to recuperate further, before being returned to Australia on 24 June 1916. During this time he is thought to have bought the snake from a Turkish prisoner there. He was transferred to hospital in Malta for several weeks. He fought at Quinn's Post during the early part of the campaign, from 26 April to 4 May.įorsythe was wounded at Quinn's Post in the right foot on, during a major Turkish attack. He served with 13 Battalion on Gallipoli, landing on 25 April. He was appointed a lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force on 14 November 1914 and promoted to Captain on 22 December, the day he embarked from Melbourne. He served in South Africa with 3 Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse for ten months and served six years with militia units after the Boer War. Beadwork snake made by an Ottoman prisoner of war (POW) in a British POW camp, associated with the service of Captain William Alfred Forsythe.
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