James CLAZIE

CLAZIE, James

Service Number: WX11761
Enlisted: 23 April 1941
Last Rank: Staff Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, 14 August 1903
Home Town: Collie, Collie, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Buckingham, Western Australia, 31 January 1984, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Collie General Cemetery, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

23 Apr 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, WX11761
29 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, WX11761

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Biography contributed by Rick Heiser

James was born in 1903 at Norham, Northumberland, England, a son of William Clazie and Eleanor Crawford.  

He migrated to Western Australia in 1926.  He married Janet Ransome and they later had 2 children.  

Directories from 1939-49 showed this address:  Clazie Jas, 23 Bunbury st, Collie.

James enlisted in the Australian army in 1941 with the rank of Staff Sergeant in a Light Aid Detachment and he was dischrged in 1945.

He died in 1984 at Buckingham, Western Australia, age 80, and was buried at Collie:

 

 

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