Complex sentence: Born in 1896 in Timaru, New Zealand, he joined the New Zealand Military Forces in 1914 as a cadet and served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 1916 in the Middle East for the last two years of the First World War.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in 1896 in Timaru, New Zealand, he joined the New Zealand Military Forces in 1914 as a cadet. He joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1916 and served in the Middle East for the last two years of the First World War.