RUSSELL, James
| Service Number: | 253 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland, April 1891 |
| Home Town: | Teralba, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal miner |
| Died: | Teralba, New South Wales, Australia, 1 January 1953, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-A16. 21. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 253, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 253, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 253, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 30 Oct 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 253, 20th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, wounded |
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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.
71 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 2nd January 1953, Private James Russell, 20th Battalion (Reg No-253), coal miner from Park Street, Teralba, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 60. PRESBYTERIAN-A16. 21.
Born at King Street, Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland about April 1891 to William and Martha Russell; husband of Elizabeth Russell nee Williamson (married 11.1.1918 at Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom, died?), James enlisted on the 9th March 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A35 Berrima on the 26th June 1915.
Admitted to hospital 5.12.1916 (laryngitis & bronchitis), 25.5.1917 (scabies).
Wounded in action - 8.4.1918 (GSW left arm, left chest & jaw).
Commenced return to Australia 30.6.1918.
James arrived home on the 6th September 1918, being discharged medically unfit (GSW left chest & bronchitis) on the 30th October 1918.
Service record does not indicate that wife Elizabeth sailed home with James.
Mr. Russell’s name has been inscribed on the Teralba Soldiers' Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at James’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 1/1/1953.
Officially commemorated 15.4.1953 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
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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