THOMPSON, James
| Service Number: | 1787 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Ireland, May 1877 |
| Home Town: | Abermain, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Randwick Military Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 19 October 1933, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW |
| Memorials: | Abermain War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 26 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1787, 17th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 28 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 1787, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 1787, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney | |
| 14 Oct 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1787, 17th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, head wound and shell shock, invalided back to Australia | |
| 15 Jul 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1787, 17th Infantry Battalion, MD, wounding and shell shock |
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Gary Mitchell to Australia and New Zealand in WWI
“I Once was Lost, but Now am Found”.
Private James Thompson, 17th Battalion, coal miner and fruiterer from Armidale Street, Abermain, New South Wales and Government Road, Weston, N.S.W. and Church and King Streets, Newcastle, N.S.W., died at the Randwick Military Hospital on the 19th October 1933, age 56, and was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery on the 20th October 1933. PRESBYTERIAN-21SW. 76.
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Born at Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Ireland 1877 to John and Agnes Thompson nee Allen; husband of Elizabeth Jane (Jeanie?) Thompson nee McFarlane (married Glasgow, Scotland, date?, died 1969 - PRESBYTERIAN 23SW. 77?) of Third Street, Weston, New South Wales, James enlisted October 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 14.10.1915 (GSW head, slight), and admitted to hospital 21.12.1915 (mental shock or shell shock), Mr Thompson was invalided home March 1916.
His name has been inscribed on the Abermain War Memorial.
Although resting in an unmarked grave for 86 years, James had not been forgotten.
James's Granddaughter Ann Fawkes notified me of the unmarked grave, so we placed a cross June 2019 to honour James’s service for God, King and Country, with descendants present, and Kye Jeffriess sounded The Last Post.
An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip submitted June 2019, and was accepted August 2019, completed November 2019.
Lest We Forget.
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