SEADER, Sydney James
| Service Number: | 976 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 July 1915, Liverpool |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Forbes, New South Wales, Australia, 13 February 1897 |
| Home Town: | Kiama, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Shell wounds left arm, Polygon Wood, Belgium, 29 September 1917, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot 24 Row B Grave 7A |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kiama Scots Presbyterian Church Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 976, 30th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 976, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 976, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 29 Sep 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 976, 30th Infantry Battalion, Polygon Wood |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
Jim Seader had a checkered military career from the moment he arrived in Egypt in December 1915 until he died of wounds received at Polygon Wood in late September 1917.
Born at Forbes in central west New South Wales in 1897, the second oldest of six children of William and Nora Seader (nee Kelly), he enlisted as an 18 year old at Liverpool and was assigned to the 30th Battalion AIF.
Private Seader was consistently in trouble with his military superiors for a variety of minor offences whilst in the Middle East. Transferred to the Western Front in June 1916, his indiscretions continued with several AWL charges and being returned to France under escort from leave in England.
In April 1917 he was Court Martialled and sentenced to six months imprisonment for altering his pay book.
On 19 September 1917 he was released early from detention and returned to his unit, with tragic consequences. Ten days later he was dead - suffering severe wounds to his left side from a shell blast near Polygon Wood on September 28. Taken to the 14th Casualty Clearing Station, he succumb to his wounds the next day.
Private Jim Seader was buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.