 The usual practice was for Australian staff college graduates to follow their training with a posting to a British Army or British Indian Army headquarters . He was initially attached to the 4th Battalion , King 's Royal Rifle Corps at Rawalpindi , and then the staff of the Kohat Brigade on the North @-@ West Frontier . Finally , he was assigned to the General Staff at Army Headquarters at Shimal . In May 1914 , he was sent to Britain for more training , while his family returned home to Australia . He visited Turkey ( including the Dardanelles ) , Belgium , and the battlefields of the Franco @-@ Prussian War en route . In England he spent a brief time on attachment to the 4th Dragoon Guards at Tidworth before taking up duties on the staff of the Wessex Division , at that time entering its annual camp . On 1 July 1914 , he was promoted to major . 
