A few years ago I researched an uncle of my mother who served during WW1. I discovered that he served most of WW1 on active duty, including in the Mediterranean, I assume Gallipoli. Unfortunately he was seriously wounded a few months before the end of WW1. The surprising thing that his service record revealed is that he went awol, around 10 times, during WW1 but only received very minimal punishment. One would have thought that he would have been shot at dawn for going awol just once but he got away with very minimal punishment for going awol multiple times. I guess that he took as much as he could stand and just needed a bit of time-out and this must of been recognised by his NCO's and junior officers? Mother remembers seeing a photograph of him not long after he came back from Franceicon. He was in a wheelchair, a broken man, physically and mentally.