HALLIWELL, James
| Service Number: | 119 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 January 1916, 3 mths senior cadets |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 4 May 1896 |
| Home Town: | New Lambton, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | New Lambton Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Natural causes, New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 1 March 1987, aged 90 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-93. 104. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 119, 35th Infantry Battalion, 3 mths senior cadets | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 119, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 119, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 30 Oct 1919: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Awarded, and promulgated, 'London Gazette' No. 31448 (11 July 1919); 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 124 (30 October 1919). | |
| 31 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 119, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
36 years ago today, on the 3rd March 1987, Lance Corporal James Halliwell (M.I.D.), 35th Battalion (Reg No-119), coal miner (Dudley Colliery) and bus conductor from 33 Rugby Road, New Lambton, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 90. CATHOLIC 3-93. 104.
Born at New Lambton, New South Wales on the 4th May 1896 to Arthur and Esther Halliwell of Regent Street, New Lambton, N.S.W.; husband of Edith Newel Halliwell nee Pickin (married 1921, Lambton, N.S.W., died 1972, age 73, sleeping here), James enlisted on the 9th January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
James's name mentioned at a Memorial Service held at the New Lambton Methodist Church.
Wounded in action - 23.6.1917 (GSW shoulder, severe, shell shock).
Admitted to hospital 11.9.1917 (removal of shrapnel), 5.1.1918 (scabies), 2.3.1918 (scabies), 8.8.1918 (right arm), 29.12.1918 (furunculosis - boil).
Mentioned in Despatches.
Awarded, and promulgated, 'London Gazette' No. 31448 (11th July 1919); 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 124 (30th October 1919).
Recommendation date: 7th February 1919.
James returned home on the 8th September 1919, being discharged on the 31st October 1919.
A dvertisement for public welcome home for James by the New Lambton Welcome Home Committee to be held on the 4th October at the New Lambton Mechanics' Institute Hall.
Mr. Halliwell’s name has been inscribed on the Lambton Park Citizens' Memorial Gates, Lambton and New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor, New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour and the Lambton Rose of Australia Lodge G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour .
Also served WW2 (N74838 - enlisted on the 22nd of June 1940 at Newcastle, N.S.W. and was posted at New Lambton with the R.R.D.E.C. and was discharged on the 7th of October 1940).
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at the Halliwell gravesite in remembrance of James’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service records states DIED 1.3.1987.
James has not been officially commemorated.
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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