DescriptionGeorge's parents didn't want him to join the army as he wasn't 21. He went to Sydney and put his age up. He joined the Light Horse and then transferred to the 13th Machine Gun and served in Gallipoli. He was wounded in France in February 1917 at the Battle of Stormy Trench and was sent home in July. He had his first bone graft operation in Australia at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, and had about 27 operations in total. Bone was grafted from rib to side of head to heal the schrapnel wound.
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