Editing Banjo Paterson (section)

===Hiatus and military service===
In 1908 after a trip to the United Kingdom he decided to abandon journalism and writing and moved with his family to a {{convert|40000|acre|ha|adj=on|order=flip}} property near [[Yass, New South Wales|Yass]].<ref name='DM56'>{{cite news | title=Bard of the Bush | date=20 June 1956 | publisher=Truth and Sportsman Ltd | work =Daily Mirror| page =21 }}</ref>

In [[World War I]], Paterson failed to become a correspondent covering the fighting in Flanders, but did become an ambulance driver with the [[Australian Voluntary Hospital]], [[Wimereux]], France. He returned to Australia early in 1915 and, as an honorary vet, travelled on three voyages with horses to Africa, China and Egypt. He was commissioned in the 2nd Remount Unit, [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] on 18 October 1915,<ref name=ADB /> serving initially in France where he was wounded and reported missing in July 1916 and latterly as commanding officer of the unit based in [[Cairo]], Egypt.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234609374 |title='BANJO' WON |newspaper=[[Smith's Weekly]] |volume=XXIII |issue=2 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 March 1941 |access-date=17 December 2017 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=22 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222031437/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/234609374 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was repatriated to Australia and discharged from the army having risen to the rank of major in April 1919.<ref name='NAA'>{{cite web |title=Paterson, Andrew Barton Service Records Item no 4028776 |access-date=17 May 2019 |publisher=National Archives of Australia |url=https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4028776 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404180629/https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4028776 |url-status=live }}</ref> His wife had joined the Red Cross and worked in an ambulance unit near her husband.<ref name="DM56"/>