MORRIS, James
| Service Number: | 1182 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 19 December 1887 |
| Home Town: | Millers Point, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sailor |
| Died: | Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 23 May 1948, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-B10. 56. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1182, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1182, 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, 1182, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 6 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1182, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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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.
76 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 24th May 1948, Private James Morris, 35th Battalion (Reg No-1182), sailor from Playfair Street, Millers Point, New South Wales and 82 Laman Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W. (1935), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 60. PRESBYTERIAN-B10. 56.
Born at Devonshire Street, Surry Hills, New South Wales on the 19th December 1887 to James and Mary A Morris, James enlisted on the 22nd December 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Granted leave to England from 17.12.1917 to 31.12.1917.
Admitted to hospital 14.4.1918 (appendicitis), 15.10.1918 (influenza).
Wounded in action - 28.6.1918 (GSW chest, abdomen, severe).
Invalided to England 17.7.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 21.12.1918.
James arrived home invalided on the 4th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit (GSW chest & abdomen) on the 6th June 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, wounding, returning home, etc.
Mr. Morris’s name has been inscribed on 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 23/5/1948.
Officially commemorated 8/9/1948 – 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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