James Basil GRACE

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GRACE, James Basil

Service Numbers:	2283, 2352
Enlisted:	13 January 1916, AWM records use Service No:2352 NAA records use Service No:2283
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
Born:	Derby, Tasmania, Australia, 14 April 1887
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Boiler Attendant
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 September 1966, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Memorials:	Nar Nar Goon Melbourne Electric Supply Company Limited Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

13 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2283, 8th Light Horse Regiment, AWM records use Service No:2352 NAA records use Service No:2283
2 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 2352, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Uganda embarkation_ship_number: A66 public_note: ''
2 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 2352, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Uganda, Melbourne
22 Jan 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Trooper, 2283, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron , ex Suez per HT Euripides to Melbourne
10 Apr 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 2283, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
25 Aug 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

James was the third of ten children of Michael Grace (b1857 in Ballarat, Victoria) and Emily Elizabeth Cotton (b1857 in Glamorgan, Tasmania). Michael - a Farmer - and Emily married in 1882 in Portland, Tasmania.

James was a Fireman in Melbourne, Victoria in 1908 when he married Rose Hannah Smart (b1889 in Ararat, Victoria). In January 1916 James was a Boiler Attendant in Melbourne when he enlisted in the AIF. He served in Egypt as a Private/Trooper (Service Nos:2283/2352) with 8th Light Horse Regiment and 3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron and was Discharged in April 1917. Brothers-in-Law james Tregellis Smart (Private; Service No:6353) and Goulbourne Smart (Driver; Service No:6747) also served in WWI.

Returning to Melbourne, James was unemployed until the 1930s when he worked as a Commercial Traveller and then as a Labourer. Following Rose's death in 1948, James remarried in 1949 - Violet Jane Barratt (nee Vincent b1900 in Launceston, Tasmania). James and Rose settled in Melbourne, where James worked as a Labourer and Salesman. Violet died in 1961 and James died in 1966.

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