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MEMES, James Walter Scott
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 2442 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 53rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Uralla, New South Wales, Australia, 12 July 1876 |
| Home Town: | Mudgee, Mid-Western Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Crane Driver |
| Died: | Killed In Action, 8 April 1918, aged 41 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Communal Cemetery B 3 INSCRIPTION - SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY |
| Memorials: | Gulgong and Mudgee District Roll of Honor, Mudgee District Fallen Soldiers Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 14 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 2442, 53rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: '' | |
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| 14 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 2442, 53rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Mashobra, Sydney |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Parents: James and Catherine MEMES; husband of linda MEMES, "Camla", Mudgee, New South Wales
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He appears to have used his middle name Walter.
Enlisted 29th November 1915.
He was 42 and the husband of Linda T. Memes [nee Gormly]
Marriage 1914 Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
He was at one time remembered on the Memess family grave at Bromley, Plaistow Cemetery, Kent, England. Here are interred Eliza M. Memess-aged 66-died 1912 and Mary Ann Memess-aged 82- died 1930.
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