
LACY, James Dyson
Service Number: | 854 |
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Enlisted: | 26 March 1915 |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | 8th Light Horse Regiment |
Born: | St. Helens Station via Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 19 January 1881 |
Home Town: | Mackay, Mackay, Queensland |
Schooling: | The Armidale School, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Malaria and Septicemia, Palestine, 6 September 1918, aged 37 years |
Cemetery: |
Gaza War Cemetery, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza) Portion XXXII, Row F, Grave No. 9 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His brother Captain Francis Prior Lacy MC MID Royal Engineers, was killed in action on 13 August 1915 in Flanders, serving with British tunneling experts. He was a young mining and metallurgical engineer of great promise. He took a high place at the Royal School of Mines and won a post graduate course with the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
They were the sons of Dyson and Frances Amelia Lacy, of Hobart, Tasmania. The brothers were born at St. Helens Station, Mackay, Queensland. The Lacy family were early pastoral pioneers of the Mackay District in North Queensland.