DAVIDSON, Maxwell James
| Service Number: | 861 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914, An original of H Company |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sale, Victoria, Australia, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Sale, Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Coolgardie School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Grocers assistant |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Egypt, 6 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sale Cenotaph |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 861, 8th Infantry Battalion, An original of H Company | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 861, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 861, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne | |
| 6 May 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 861, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 861 awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-05-06 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Maxwell Davidson was born in Sale, Victoria, but lived much of his life in Coolgardie WA where his father was working, until his father’s accidental death in 1912. He and his mother (he was an only son) returned to Sale, where 19 year old Maxwell was working for a grocer when war broke out. Within a fortnight of war being declared in Australia, Maxwell travelled to Melbourne to enlist at Broadmeadows, on the 18th August 1914.
Maxwell took part in the landing at Gallipoli, on the early morning of 25 April 1915, where he was seriously wounded (arm, shoulder and neck) sometime on that landing day. He was taken aboard a hospital ship and evacuated to Alexandria Egypt, and admitted to the 15th General Hospital (30.4.1915), where he died of his wounds one week later (6.5.1915). At the time of his death, his rank was Lance Corporal. Maxwell is buried in the Chatby War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt.
His mother, Elizabeth (McCord) Davidson, returned to her family in North Adelaide, South Australia in 1921.
Edited from Anzacs Online
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