James GALL

GALL, James

Service Number: 779
Enlisted: 14 November 1914, Holsworthy, New South Wales
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: 1st Light Horse Regiment
Born: Bairnesdale, Victoria, December 1891
Home Town: Sarsfield, East Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling: Sarsfield Public School
Occupation: Miner
Died: Died of Illness (enteric fever), Malta, 31 July 1915
Cemetery: Pieta Military Cemetery
Grave 6, Row C, Plot B, Pieta Military Cemetery, Tal-Pieta, Malta (island), Malta
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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"News was received last week of the death of Private James Gall, of Sarsfield. On arriving in Egypt the deceased, who was 24 years of age, contracted a severe attack of measles, and was for a time a patient ill the Heliopolis hospital. Becoming convalescent, he proceeded to the front, where he contracted enteric fever. He was being invalided home on the hospital ship, but died on the journey. Information has been received that deceased's brother, Private Jack Gall, who is at the Dardanelles, is also ill." - from the Bairnsdale Every Week 26 Aug 1915 (nla.gov.au)

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