BAGULEY, James Thomas
| Service Number: | 4784 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 August 1917, Bathurst, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, UK, 2 November 1891 |
| Home Town: | Millthorpe, Blayney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Concord, New South Wales, May 1962, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Field Of Mars Cemetery, Ryde, NSW |
| Memorials: | Millthorpe Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Aug 1917: | Enlisted Bathurst, New South Wales | |
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| 19 Dec 1917: | Involvement Private, 4784, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Dec 1917: | Embarked Private, 4784, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney |
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James (Jim) Baguley arrived in Australia in early 1917, having already served from December 1914 to May 1916 in the Canadian 3rd Infantry Battalion in France. Jim's elder brother, Private Frederick Storer Baguley, a soldier in the Candaian 16th Infantry Battalion, was killed at Vimy Ridge, France on 9 April 1917. Jim, as a farm labourer on the Warburton Farm at Millthorpe, enlisted at Bathurst, NSW after the news of his brother Frederick's death had reached him. Jim returned in 1919 to Millthorpe to marry Annie Rouse, an immigrant from Groby, Leicestershire. Annie and Jim moved to Westmead, NSW where he began a career as a tram driver in Sydney's network. Annie and Jim raised three children (two electrical engineers and a teacher). They lived in Westmead until Jim died in 1962 at Concord Repatriation Hospital, the result of a WW1 trench-related persistent lung infection.
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