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LAMEY, Alexander James
| Service Number: | 3792 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 August 1915, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 12 August 1896 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | South Australia, Australia, 18 February 1976, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Houghton Cemetery, S.A. Section A row 9 site 556 |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Mount Gambier Knight & Cleve Pictorial Honour Rolls |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3792, 10th Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 2 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3792, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 2 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3792, 10th Infantry Battalion, RMS Malwa, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 3792, 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
3792 Alexander James LEAMEY was born at Mount Gambier on 12 August 1896. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 15 October 1910 by his father, David Francis Leamey, a labourer, of John Street, Mount Gambier. He left school on 15 December 1911.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 12 August 1915 (18, grocer’s assistant, single, Church of England) naming his mother, Elizabeth Margaret Leamey of Mount Gambier, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Malwa’ on 2 December 1915 as a reinforcement for the 10th Battalion and arrived in Egypt about a month later, embarking again at Alexandria in Egypt on 29 March 1916 and disembarking at Marseilles in France on 4 April.
He was detailed to a Machine Gun School in France on 30 June 1916 and then transferred to the 3rd Machine Gun Company on 2 August 1916. He was wounded (shrapnel wound head) on 12 April 1917 (apparently the only casualty that day according to the unit war diary) and evacuated to England on 16 April. He was discharged to furlough from 21 May to 5 June and returned to France on 18 October, re-joining his unit on 22 October. In 1918 his unit became part of the 1st Machine Gun Battalion. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 23 June 1918, went on leave to Paris from 12 to 22 October 1918. He left England for return to Australia on 2 March 1919 on the ‘Derbyshire’, disembarked on 20 April, was welcomed home at Yahl in May and was discharged on 12 June.
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