SOMMERVILLE, James Herbert
| Service Number: | 19867 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 September 1915, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 8th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Clovelly, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom, 9 June 1893 |
| Home Town: | Port Victoria, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia |
| Schooling: | County Council School, Clovelly, North Devon, England |
| Occupation: | Mason's Labourer |
| Died: | Pneumonia, At Sea (aboard H.M.T. Medic), 2 July 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Buried at Sea on the day he died. |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, Port Victoria War Memorial and Flagpole |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 20 May 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 19867, 8th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 20 May 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 19867, 8th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Medic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His birth was registered as Sommerville but some sources [including AWM]state his surname as Somerville.
Births Sep 1893 Sommerville James Herbert Bideford 5b 495
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 23 and the son of James and Augusta E. Somerville, of Clovelly, North Devon, England.
He is remembered on the CLOVELLY 1914 - 1918 WAR MEMORIAL
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
1901 census-Saint Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
James Sommerville Head 43 Glasgow Scotland
Augusta E Sommerville Wife 28 Clovelly, North Devonshire
James Herbert Sommerville Son 7 Clovelly, North Devonshire
William Archibald Sommerville Son 2 Clovelly, North Devonshire
Ellen Augusta Sommerville Daughter 0 St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire
Age on arrival in Australia 16
Enlistment date 9 September 1915-Gunner-Field Artillery Brigade 8, Battery 30.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A7 Medic on 20 May 1916-he was then said to be 24.[but not in fact so]
The war memorial plaque is in Clovelly church.
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