Amos Alfred JAMES

Badge Number: M2833 / SA91 / 16345, Sub Branch: Naracoorte
M2833 / SA91 / 16345

JAMES, Amos Alfred

Service Number: 4734
Enlisted: 10 February 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide.
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 3rd Divisional Signal Company
Born: Brighton, South Australia, 14 June 1898
Home Town: Naracoorte, Naracoorte and Lucindale, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: 4 August 1982, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Naracoorte Cemetery, S.A.
Interred on 6 August 1982, Grave E680. Burial number 3402
Memorials: Naracoorte and District Town Hall Honour Board WW1
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World War 1 Service

10 Feb 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4734, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Adelaide.
11 Apr 1916: Involvement Private, 4734, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
11 Apr 1916: Embarked Private, 4734, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Adelaide
16 Mar 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, Transferred from the 27th Battalion to the 2nd Divisional Signals in the field
4 Oct 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 4734, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, Broodseinde Ridge, Shell wound to the abdomen and invalided to England on 19 October 1917
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Sapper, 4734
1 Sep 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 4734, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, Discharged at 4th Military District

World War 2 Service

10 Apr 1942: Enlisted Keswick, SA

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Alfred Herbert Ernest James and Rosa Maud (nee Tilbrook) James; brother of Marjorie Pearl James

19 January 1917 - to hospital with Mumps

17 July 1919 - returned to Australia on board HT Mahia

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 26 December 1925 married Florence Christina Baldock in the Noarlunga Methodist Church. Father of Desmond Amos James(died 1963), Daryl James and Maxwell James