HAGAN, James
| Service Number: | 2200 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Barraba, New South Wales, Australia, July 1893 |
| Home Town: | Barraba, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Suicide (war related), Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 29 January 1925 |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Anglican_1; Section 81; Plot 56 |
| Memorials: | Barraba Public School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2200, 1st Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 21 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2200, 1st Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Armadale embarkation_ship_number: A26 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2200, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Armadale, Sydney | |
| 31 Aug 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 5th Division Trench Mortar Brigade | |
| 14 Jun 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 33rd Infantry Battalion | |
| 1 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 2200, 33rd Infantry Battalion, MD |
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From Gary Mitchell
Another tragic story of a WW1 Digger (forgotten?) resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
95 years ago today, on the 30th January 1925, Private James Hagan, 33rd Battalion, farmer and boilermaker's assistant and fitter (Honeysuckle Point workshops), of Cooper Street, Barraba, New South Wales and 10 Cowper Street, Georgetown, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 31. ANGLICAN 1-81. 56. (no funeral notice, only death notice printed 14th February -
Born at Barraba, New South Wales on the 30th June 1893 to James and Amy Amelia Hagan nee Forbes; husband of Doris Kathleen Hagan nee Ratcliff (married 1921, died 1976, Bulahdelah, N.S.W., as ARMES), James enlisted August 1915 with the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment at Armidale, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 18.10.1917 suffering from trench feet, James returned home June 1919.
Mr Hagan’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall at Sandgate Cemetery. Name has not been located inscribed on any other known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
Tragically, James took his own life on the 29th January 1925 with a self inflicted wound to the throat.
There is no inscription on James’s headstone to tell us that he served with the 1st A.I.F., but there is a memorial inscription to honour the supreme sacrifice of younger brother John William Hagan (Reg No-445, 33rd Battalion, born 1895, DOW 30th September 1918). ANGLICAN 1-81. 56.
Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance.
The Great War did not end in 1918, or 1919, or 1925. For a great many of our returned servicemen and nurses, it never ended.
Lest We Forget.
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