 Northcott embarked for Egypt from Hobart with the 12th Infantry Battalion on the transport A2 , HMAT Geelong on 20 October 1914 . This was one of the first battalions ashore in the landing at Anzac Cove on the first Anzac Day , 25 April 1915 . Northcott 's part in the battle was brief , for that day he was wounded in the chest by a Turkish bullet . He lay amongst a pile of dead bodies until the evening , when he was found to be alive . He was evacuated to Alexandria and later to England . While recuperating , he was joined by his fiancée , Winifred Mary Paton , who had travelled to England to be with him . The two were married at the parish church in Oxted on 14 September 1915 . He returned to Australia on 30 December 1915 and took no further part in the fighting , it being " a rigid rule that no regular officer once invalided to Australia could again go overseas " . His AIF appointment was terminated on 30 September 1916 and he was posted to the 5th Military District , the military district covering the state of Western Australia . 
