YORK, James William
| Service Number: | 3125 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 October 1916, Claremont, Tasmania |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia, 2 May 1892 |
| Home Town: | Sheffield, Kentish, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Tasmanian State School, West Kentish |
| Occupation: | School Master |
| Died: | GSW head, France, 9 April 1918, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Crucifix Corner Cemetery Also commemorated panel 177 in the Commemorative Area at the AWM |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart St Andrews Church Roll of Honour, Kentish Municipality Honour Roll Mural, Sheffield War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3125, Claremont, Tasmania | |
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| 10 Feb 1917: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 3125, 40th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' |
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| 10 Feb 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3125, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide | |
| 8 Apr 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3125, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3125 awm_unit: 5th Australian Machine Gun Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-04-09 |
Greg Cornelius
James York
Is my grand fathers brother.
I stumbled on this story, it took my breath away.
From a world away from France 🇫🇷 and a world away from our family to enlist at age 24 and die a year later in France for King and Country.
I’ll always remember him.
My great grand parents who rest in Sheffield Tasmania along with his brother my grand father Reginald York, I cant even imagine what it would be like to give up their son and brother and tune into the radio to be updated and finally to receive James would never come home.
Proudly Australian we are like many of us gave up our sons lost to our families my the world live in peace, we will remember them.!
Submitted 5 July 2020 by Greg Cornelius
Biography
Father Albert James York and Mother Ether Maira York (nee Excell)
living at Sheffield, Tasmania.
Brother: Reginald George York
On enlisting James lived at Burnie, Tasmania.
Previous service:- 3 years with 21st Light Horse Regiment
Next of kin in service: 2 cousins (kia)
Described on enlisting as 24 years old; single; 5' 9" tall; 10 stone; fair complexion;
light blue eyes; fair hair; Presbyterian.
26/9/1916 completed medical in Burnie
fit for service
10/10/1916 Enlisted at Claremont, Tasmania
2/2/1917 Commanding Officer placed James in 40th Infantry Battalion,
7th reinforcements Claremont Camp
10/2/1917 Embarked from Outer Harbour, Port Adelaide on board HMAT Seang Bee
with the 40th Infantry Battalion, 7th reinforcements
2/5/1917 disembarked into Devonport, England
2/5/1917 marched in to 12th Training Brigade
13/7/1917 transferred to Machine Gun Durrington
11/10/1917 proceeded overseas to France, ex Folkestone
12/10/1917 marched in ex England, into Machine Gun Corps Base Depot, Camiers, France
15/10/1917 marched out to 25th Australian Machine Gun Company
16/10/1917 taken on strength in 25th Australian Machine Gun Company
8/4/1918 Private York was serving with the 5th Machine Gun Company in France when
he was hit in the head by a sniper and died instantly.
from Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Bureau
body later exhumed and reinterned in:
Crucifix Corner Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Medals:
British War Medal (56320); Victory medal (55440); Memorial Plaque and
Memorial Scroll (342991).
Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. 23/11/2014. Lest we forget.
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