JAMES, Claude Beresford
| Service Number: | 1767 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 20 May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Bruthen, East Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Gallipoli, 20 August 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bruthen War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1767, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Mar 1915: | Involvement Private, 1767, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Mar 1915: | Embarked Private, 1767, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Claude Beresford James was the son of Edward Augustus and Eliza Jane James who had passed away many years before the war. The father died in 1899 and his mother in 1905. Claude was born in Sydney, New South Wales, but he enlisted at Bruthen, Victoria, where he was reported to have been working as a farm labourer. He had been raised in the Kerang area of Victoria and his name was included on the Kerang School Boys Honour Roll of 1915.
Claude was sent to Gallipoli during May 1915. There are no entries in his service file apart from ‘killed in action 20 August 1915’, which was the day before the Battalion attacked Hill 60. He has no known grave.
His older brother, 2435 Aubrey Mandeville James 48th Battalion AIF, was later killed in action at Dernancourt 5 April 1918, age 26.
When Claude enlisted, he gave his next of kin as his brother, Cyril James of Bruthen, Victoria. Despite the best efforts of Base Records, they could not trace Cyril after the war. Notices were inserted in the press in an effort to find a relative. A Ruby May Anderson was noted in his file as an only sister. She passed away during 1925. Eventually Major Lean of Base Records marked his medals and entitlements as ‘untraceable.’
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