LENNOX, James
| Service Number: | 5565 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, January 1878 |
| Home Town: | Killingworth, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Coon Island Point, Swansea, New South Wales, Australia, 23 July 1963, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-39. 89. |
| Memorials: | Killingworth War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5565, Tunnelling Companies | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5565, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5565, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 3 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 5565, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
71 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 22nd May 1953, Sapper James Lennox, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-5565), miner (Killingworth Colliery, N.S.W.), from Killingworth, New South Wales and Coon Island Point, Swansea, N.S.W., father of seven (Jim, Hannah, Wal, Lydia, Annie, Mary, Patricia), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 76. CATHOLIC 2-39. 89.
Born at Balmain, New South Wales January? 1878? to George, died 31.8.1894, West Wallsend, N.S.W., age 29, died 14.7.1888, Minmi, N.S.W., age 47 - mother; husband of Mary Lennox nee McWilliams (married 1903, Lambton, N.S.W., died 12.10.1950, Wallsend, N.S.W., age 66, sleeping here) from Coon Island Point, Swansea, N.S.W. and 24 Veronica Street, Cardiff, N.S.W., James enlisted on the 2nd June 1916 with the Tunnelling Company-October Reinf. at Waratah, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on the 25th October 1916.
Admitted to hospital 14.12.1917 (sciatica).
Commenced return to Australia 31.1.1918.
James arrived home on the 15th April 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 3rd August 1918.
Mr. Lennox’s name has been inscribed on the Killingworth Soldiers' Memorial. Name probably inscribed on the Killingworth Union Church Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at James’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
See Tunnellers - http://www.tunnellers.net/.
Brother-in-law to William McWilliams, miner from Killingworth, New South Wales, 20th Battalion (Reg No-946), wounded in action - 27.7.1916 (shell shock), Fell on the 26th August 1916, age 24, Battle of Pozieres, name inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France, Killingworth Soldiers' Memorial, Killingworth Public School Roll of Honour, West Wallsend Public School Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall, memorialised at parent's gravesite - CATHOLIC 1-10. 8.
Brother-in-law to Thomas McWilliams, miner from Killingworth, New South Wales and Hamilton, N.S.W. and Swansea, N.S.W., 36th Battalion (Reg No-2110), RTA 31.12.1917, 13th Battalion, died 24.9.1954, age 84, resting at the cemetery - CATHOLIC 1-10. 8.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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