BYRON, James Bernard
| Service Number: | 6526 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 November 1916, Enlisted 2nd August, 1915, discharged medically unfit, illness |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Fosterton, (Dungog),New South Wales, Australia, 20 September 1888 |
| Home Town: | Dungog, Dungog, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Stockton, New South Wales, Australia, 10 March 1963, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-85. 68. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6526, 19th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted 2nd August, 1915, discharged medically unfit, illness | |
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| 7 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 6526, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 6526, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney | |
| 25 Oct 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6526, 19th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit due to wounding |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
62 years ago today, on the 11th March 1963, Private James Bernard L Byron, referred to as Jim, 19th Battalion (Reg No-6526), farmer from Fig Tree, Dungog, New South Wales and 117 Roxburgh Street, Stockton N.S.W. (1930), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 74. CATHOLIC 3-85. 68.
Born at Fosterton, (Dungog), New South Wales on the 20th September 1888 to John Joseph, died 17.8.1903, Dungog, N.S.W., age 54, buried at Dungog General Cemetery, and Catherine Byron nee Sweeney, died 29.7.1932, Dungog Hospital, N.S.W., age 71, mother of 12, sleeping at Dungog General Cemetery, from Brown Street, Dungog, New South Wales; husband of Mary Croudace? Byron nee Bland (married 1927, Stockton, N.S.W., died 1976?, Stockton, N.S.W., age 71), Jim enlisted on the 2nd August 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Discharged-15.1.1916, (medically unfit).
Re-enlisted-14.11.1916, Rutherford, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 23.4.1917 (pneumonia).
Wounded in action - 28.3.1918 (shell shock & contusion to ribs, GSW abdomen, severe).
Commenced return to Australia 30.6.1918.
Jim arrived home on the 1st September 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 25th October 1918.
Mr. Byron’s name has been inscribed on the Dungog and District Honour Roll.
I have placed poppies at Jim’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Younger brother Thomas H Byron, born 18.7.1890, Fosterton, Dungog, New South Wales, loco fireman from Brown Street, Dungog, N.S.W., enlisted 4.10.1915, 18th Battalion, Reg No-3758, admitted to hospital 24.4.1916 (influenza), 17.5.1916 (mumps), 24.12.1916 (alveolar abscess), wounded in action - 7.4.1918 (GSW face), KIA 11.5.1918, Morlancourt, France, age 27, resting at Beacon Cemetery Plot IV Row D Grave 2, Sailly-Laurette, France, awaiting memorialisation at parent's gravesite.
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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