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WINTER, James Herbert
| Service Number: | 3961 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Lofty, South Australia, Australia, 23 July 1899 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Trainee |
| Memorials: | Aldgate War Memorial, Uraidla & Districts Roll of Honour 1 |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 3961, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
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| 7 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 3961, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 3961 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Heathfield High School
James Herbert Winter, also known as James, lived in Piccadilly, Adelaide, South Australia. James spent the majority of his education at Crafers Public School. James Winter has two brothers called Percy Charles Winter and the other brother's name is unknown but in newspapers, it talks about how A Charles winter mourned his brother Percy Charles Winter's death, there is also another soldier who lived in Piccadilly, South Australia, Ross Herben Winter, this information gives the assumption that Ross may be his brother, cousin, uncle, or step-sibling. There is very little information about his father, James’s father Mr G owned his very own vegetable garden where he would grow and sell vegetables for the public. His mother Laura Lousia Winter died on the 10th of September 1919, she was buried in Stirling District. On the 27th of July 2015, James was 18 years old and 0 months old at enlistment, which means he was born between the 28th of June and the 27th of July.
James went to school at Crafers Public School where he studied, he was one of the 110 students who went there, there were only three teachers Mrs Dangerfield taught 1st and 2nd grade. James was unluckily left handed which meant that he had his hand tied behind his back at school so then it would force him to become right handed. After school James would walk or ride his bike to Mount Lofty Summit and sat there with his friends looking at the amazing view of the city, he could see all the way to the beach as Mount Lofty Summit was the highest place in Adelaide, he would then walk down it to a waterfall at the bottom of the summit and hang out with his friends in summer in the waterfall to cool down. But when he was not at school or hanging out with his friends he was busy working at his dad's vegetable garden, on his 16th birthday his dad had decided that he wanted James to be working there with his two brothers, the vegetable garden was extremely successful especially due to South Australia being in a massive drought with most of the state's harvests failing and animals dying. This caused high demand so James and his brothers had to work there nearly every single day just to make sure that they could keep all of their customers happy.
James embarked on HMAT Miltiades 7th February 1916 and was allotted to join the 2nd Division Cyclist Corp. He arrived in Alexandria Egypt 19th March 1916 and after some further training was sent to France, disembarking at Marseilles 30th March 1916. He was taken on strength with the 1st Anzac Cyclist Battalion 12th May 1916.
He was hospitalised with scabies 27th August 1917 and after treatment was discharged to duty 4th September. He got into trouble for being at a pub during prohibited hours on 8th September and was fined a day's pay.
He was detached to duty at the Australian Corp Headquarters in April 1918 and he took leave in September 1918 in the UK. He did not report back from leave when he was supposed to but a day later he returned unannounced, because of this James did not receive any pay for the rest of the week
On the 1st of November 2018, was admitted to the hospital in France with influenza and rejoined his unit 5th November 1918. He marched out to England for demobilisation in April 1919. He returned to Australia and was discharged 9th September 1919.
Reference List
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National Archives of Australia. (1914). WINTER James Herbert : Service Number - 3961 : Place of Birth - Piccadilly SA : Place of Enlistment - Adelaide SA : Next of Kin - (Mother) WINTER Laura Louisa. [online] Available at: https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8846642 [Accessed 16 May 2024].
sarcib.ww1.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au. (n.d.). Laura Louisa Winter | South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau. [online] Available at: https://sarcib.ww1.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/enquirer/laura-louisa-winter [Accessed 16 May 2024].
THE LATE PRIVATE PERCY C. WINTER. (1916). Chronicle. [online] 28 Oct. Available at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87525739 [Accessed 16 May 2024].
Trove. (n.d.). Now open... Large Room, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly : Mr G. French Angas’s New Zealand and Australian exhibition... : ... 200 full-length portraits... of the principal New Zealand chiefs with their wives and children :... one hundred portraits of the natives and scenery of South Australia... [online] Available at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-99044114/view?partId=nla.obj-99044172#page/n0/mode/1up (sarcib.ww1.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au) [Accessed 16 May 2024].
Trove. (n.d.). Vol. 35 No. 1797 (23 Jul 1914). [online] Available at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-656467383/view?sectionId=nla.obj-660560940&partId=nla.obj-656475347#page/n21/mode/1up [Accessed 16 May 2024].
vwma.org.au. (n.d.). Australian Soldiers, Memorials and Military History. [online] Available at: https://vwma.org.au/explore/projects/132382/edit [Accessed 16 May 2024].
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www.awm.gov.au. (n.d.). Herbert Ross. [online] Available at: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1791596 [Accessed 16 May 2024].
Ancestry.com. Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave® Index, 1800s-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
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https://vwma.org.au/explore/projects/132382/edit
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