JACKMAN, Gainley James
| Service Number: | 1070 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rothesay, New Zealnad, 18 March 1898 |
| Home Town: | Exeter, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Orchardist |
| Died: | Blackman's Bay, Tasmania, Australia, 9 September 1947, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania The Hobart Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1070, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 1070, 40th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 1070, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Hobart | |
| 11 Apr 1917: | Imprisoned Reported Missing; France, 15th Battalion – captured Reincourt, 16 June 1917: confirmed PoW, interned Dulmen (German List) | |
| 18 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1070, 15th Infantry Battalion, embarked England on board HT Armagh | |
| 27 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1070, 15th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Gainley (correct name Townley: BDMNZ:1899/6176, also incorrectly recorded as Tawnley) James Jackman (Service No:1070) enlisted in the AIF on 17 March 1916, and was attached to 40 Infantry Battalion on 1 July 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Hobart, Tasmania for England on board HMAT A35 Berrima. Private Jackman was attached to 15th Infantry Battalion on 11 April 1917 at Bullencourt when he was Reported as Missing - confirmed as a PoW of the Germans on 16 June 1917 - captured at Reincourt and interned at Dulmen (AWM: German List). Private Jackman was mistakenly reported as KiA in the Red Cross Files (Private EA Williams 1884) - 'I knew him - it was during our attack on Bullencourt. I can only tell you that several of our chaps told me afterwards they had seen him killed, and that they had afterwards seen his dead body'. Private Jackman wrote in a Postcard (AWM; Red Cross Files; 4 June 1918) 'interned Parchim. Am keeping well. Received Tobacco packet safely'. Recovered from the Germans on 11 January 1919, Private Jackman embarked from England for Hobart on 18 May 1919 on board HT Armagh, and was attached to 15th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 27 July 1919.
Jacka was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1898, eldest of seven children of Townley Jackman (b1876 in Rothesay, New Zealand) and Florence (Florrie) Edith Howard (b1875 in Christchurch, New Zealand). Townley and Florrie married in 1896 in Wellington, New Zealand - Townley was a Dairyman. By 1902 Townley and Florrie had moved to Tasmania, where they raised their family. Townley worked variously as a Hawker in Mersey, a Tea Merchant and Fruiterer in Launceston, a Carrier in Beaconsfield and a Fisherman and Labourer in Blackman's Bay, Hobart.
Jacka was an Orchardist in Beaconsfield in 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF, and in 1923 in Hobart married Amelia (Amy) Lucy Bradley (b1902 at Oyster Cove, Kingborough, Tasmania). Jacka and Amy lived in Kettering and Hobart (Blackman's Bay), where they raised their family and Jacka worked in the 1930s as a Lineman (he was listed as having 'No Occupation' in Electoral Rolls 1919 - 1935) . Amy died in 1941 and Jacka in 1947.
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