CHRISTIANSON, James Ola
| Service Number: | 3277 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 May 1916, Also served during the Boer War (N.S.W. Citizen’s Bushmen, Reg No-532 as a butcher) |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 9 March 1863 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher and cook |
| Died: | Tighes Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 11 August 1942, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 10 NE. 20. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 10 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Saddler, 3277, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Also served during the Boer War (N.S.W. Citizen’s Bushmen, Reg No-532 as a butcher) | |
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| 22 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 3277, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 22 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 3277, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 22 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 3277, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Sydney | |
| 22 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 3277, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, HMAT Warilda, Sydney | |
| 25 Apr 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, 3277, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), 2nd MD, medically unfit (overage, chronic rheumatism left knee and hip joint) |
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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.
79 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 13th August 1942, Sapper James Ola Christianson, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-3277), butcher and cook from Laing Street, Market Square, Newcastle, New South Wales and 58 Elizabeth Street, Tighes Hill, N.S.W., father of three, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 79. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 10 NE. 20.
Born at Blane Street, Newcastle, New South Wales on the 19th March 1863 to Christian and Mary Ann Christianson; husband of Mary Ann Christianson nee Morris (married 1885, Newcastle, N.S.W. as CHRISTIANSEN, died 1945), James enlisted April 1916 (age 53!) with the No.4 Tunnelling Company and 1st Reinforcements at Newcastle, N.S.W.
James returned home May 1919, being discharged medically unfit (overage, chronic rheumatism left knee and hip joint) on the 25th April 1920.
Did not receive Victory Medal.
Mr. Christianson’s name has been inscribed on the Newcastle Masonic Lodge (Fidelity No. 163) Roll of Honor (photo courtesy of Ed Tonks OAM, unveiled date unknown). Name not inscribed on the Newcastle & Northern District Branch Meat Workers' Union Honour Roll.
There is no inscription on James’s headstone to tell us of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for King and Country.
Also served during the Boer War (N.S.W. Citizen’s Bushmen, Reg No-532 as a butcher).
Son David C (35th Battalion, Reg No-1090 and Heavy Artillery (WW2), Service No-N282105) memorialised same location.
Lest We Forget.
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