CORMACK, James Alexander
| Service Number: | 22789 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 7th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Wahroonga, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Warrawee Public School |
| Occupation: | Postal Assistant |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 23 July 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney NSW Post Master General's Department Honour Roll, Wahroonga St Andrew's Anglican Church WW1 Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 11 May 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 22789, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
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| 11 May 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 22789, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 23 Jul 1917: | Involvement Gunner, 22789, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 22789 awm_unit: 25th Australian Field Artillery Battery awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1917-07-23 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of William and Elizabeth Cormack, Kintore Street, Wahroonga.
He was listed as a Postal Assistant, also a Presbyterian, educated at Warrawee Public School.
He enlisted at 18 years and was killed in action and was buried in the Kandahar Farm Cemetery, NeuveEglise, Heuvelland, WestVaanderen, Belgium, Grave 11.C.7.
On the Wahroonga War Memorial, he is shown as having enlisted in 1915. The honour roll of St. Johns Presbyterian, (now Uniting Church Wahroonga), records that Alexander Cormack was Killed in Action. His name also appears on the Honour Roll at St. Andrews Anglican Church Wahroonga and Warrawee Public School.