
GALL, James
Service Number: | 779 |
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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 |
Biography
"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)