BUDGE, James
| Service Number: | 5811 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Caithness, Scotland., date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | York, York, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Ypres Grave III. J. 1. INSCRIPTION THE DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF JEMIMA BUDGE OF MIDLAND JUNCTION, W.A. , Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, York District Great War Honour Board, York War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 5811, 27th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
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| 30 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 5811, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 35 and the son of Donald and Joham Budge; husband of Jemima Budge, of Sayer St., Midland Junction, Western Australia.
He is remembered on the Newtonmore War Memorial which stands in the centre of the village of Newtonmore , beside the Village Hall. It is a Celtic cross in grey granite, seventeen feet tall.
Another Australian Great War casualty is also so honoured here. He is Private James Anderson, Service Number 772, of the 7th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. who died 25/04/1915.
Subscriptions were collected in 1920 and the memorial was unveiled on 5 January 1921 by Mrs Macpherson, the wife of the local landowner. The ceremony was attended by the three ministers in Newtonmore and a large crowd, many of whom were relatives of those whose names appear on the memorial. Most of the local men who joined up had been in the Territorials. Of the twenty eight men who died in World War I, thirteen served in the Cameron Highlanders who suffered losses in the Battles of Neuve Chapelle and Festubert in 1915.
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