MUNRO, James Donald Sutherland
| Service Number: | 150 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Division Headquarters |
| Born: | Hackney, England, 25 July 1892 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Died: | Aircraft accident, Uphaven, Wiltshire, England, 17 July 1917, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
North Sheen Cemetery, England |
| Memorials: | Burpengary Honour Roll, Caboolture District WW1 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 150, 1st Field Artillery Battery | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Gunner, 150, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Gunner, 150, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 16 Mar 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 1st Division Headquarters, Discharged to the Royal Flying Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
2nd Lt. James Donald Sutherland Munro 13th Training Squadron RFC was killed when he lost control of his RE8 turn and dived into a wood near Upavon, Wiltshire on cross country from Yatesbury. Th aircraft was a total wreck. He was buried near London. Munro had served at the Landing with the rank of Staff Sergeant with the 1st Division AIF, until he was evacuated sick in June 1915 with dysentery/paratyphoid and eventually evacuated to England. Whilst in hospital, Don met his future wife, a nurse named Clara Latham, and they were married in Fulham during March 1916.
The Munro family had a remarkable record of service. James’s brother Edward Charles Munro had just won a Military Medal for bravery as a stretcher bearer with the 5th Field Ambulance AIF, during the Bullecourt fight. Another brother, 3181 Christian Munro, was twice wounded in action and evacuated to England, but was wounded a third time and died of wounds on the 24 April 1918 while serving with the 41st Battalion, AIF. An older brother, Lieutenant William Sutherland Munro was serving in a camp in Queensland, and the father, Charles Munro, at the age of 50, enlisted in 1918 and served for 12 months in New Guinea with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force.
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