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MELVILLE, James Ewart
| Service Number: | 390 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 11th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Devonport, England, 8 July 1887 |
| Home Town: | Longreach, Longreach, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 3 December 1931, aged 44 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia Section: LO, Road: 1S, Site No: 7 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 390, 11th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 390, 11th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 390 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Andrew Glyn
James was the second child and eldest son of Scottish David Melville (A Royal Navy Engine Room Engineer) and Maria (nee Andrews, born in Newfoundland). He had 6 siblings that reached adulthood.
He and his younger brother were born in Devonport and the family around to various naval bases, till his father retired to the Dunfermline area of his own youth.
James emigrated to Australia around 1912 and joined up whilst living and working in Longreach, Queensland.
He rose to the rank of Sargeant and found time in March 1917 to marry Euphemia Reid. They had no children.
After the war and back in Australia, he later married Annie Taylor in 1928 in Adelaide. Their only daugher Evelyn was born in December 1930 and sadly within a year James had died at the age of 44.
His military grave is in the Adleaide West terrace Cemetery