James Robert HENDERSON

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HENDERSON, James Robert

Service Number:	4226
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, 23 March 1894
Home Town:	St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Brighton Road State School, St Kilda, Victoria
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 28 October 1917, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Plot: P. III. Q. 35.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

29 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 4226, 8th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
29 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 4226, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Angela Broadbent

Enlisted 6 Deptember 1915. Embarked with the 122th Reinforcements of the 8th Infantry Battalion. Although he embarked before 131 December 1915, he did not qualify for the 1914/15 Star as the ship had not left Australian Territorial waters by 31 Dec 1915.

He remained with the 8th Infantry Battalion throughout his service.

He was wounded in fighting at Passchendaele Belgium in late October 1917 in the latter phases of the Third Ypres campaign. He died of his wounds in hospital at Rouen and was interred in the large military cemetery there at St Sever.

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