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Private James Lake (Service No:W50011) served in the ACMF with 125 Australian General Transport (AGT) and 4th Australian Motor Transport Training Battalion - Trade Group, Driver - from 1 April 1942 to 9 June 1944. Older brother George served in WWII (Private; Service No:WX17582) and died as Japanese PoW in Borneo,  and father George Lake Snr served in WWI (Private; Service No:4297).

Jim was born in Collie, Western Australia in 1923, second of three children of George Lake (b1894 in Newcastle, New South Wales) and Ann (Annie) Annandale (nee Anderson; b1886 in Dundee, Scotland). Annie was a Widow with five children when she and George married in 1920 - Annie had immigrated in 1913, arriving in Fremantle on board the Australiand and settling in Collie where her first husband, John Williamson Annandale, was a Miner before enlisting in the AIF in 1916 (he was KiA in France in 1918). George worked as a Miner in Boulder before enlisting in the AIF in WWI. Following his Discharge, George settled in Collie where he was a Carter when he and Annie married in 1920. George and Annie settled in Collie where they raised their children and George worked as a Carter.

Jim was unemployed in 1942 when he enlisted in the ACMF, and following his Discharge, lived in Collie where he was working as a Miner in 1951 when he married Evelyn (Eva) Rose Roden (b1932 in Blackwood, Western Australia). Jim and Eva lived in Perth, Broomehill via Katanning and Bokal via Williams where they raised their family and Jim was a Farm Hand and Labourer. The family then lived in Bunbury and Geraldton, where Jim was a Plant Operator before retiring to Wanneroo, where Jim died in 2004 and Eva in 2017.