LOGAN, James
| Service Number: | 263 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Belfast, Ireland., 24 June 1878 |
| Home Town: | Rozelle, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Boilermaker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 27 August 1915, aged 37 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 263, 17th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 12 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 263, 17th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 263, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
James LOGAN (Service Number 263) was born on 22nd June 1878 at Belfast, Ireland. He worked as a boilermaker at Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops, temporary from 18th March 1912 and permanent after 28th June 1914. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 8th March 1915.
He had already enlisted at Liverpool on 3rd March. He was allotted to the 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion. He had been apprenticed for five years with Workman Clarke in Belfast and had a year and a half’s military experience with the Imperial Yeomanry. He was married to Maggie and nominated her as next of kin.
Logan embarked on HMAT ‘Themistocles’ at Sydney on 12th May 1915. After passage to Egypt and a short period of training there he proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Force on Gallipoli on 16th August.E
Eleven days later, on 27th August, he was posted as missing, probably at the Battle of Lone Pine. It was not until a Court of Enquiry convened in Rouen, France in April of the next year that it was determined that he had in fact died on that date. There several reports were presented that reported of a charge across open ground and that Logan was not seen or heard from later. Sapper E W Cassidy 4035 recalled visiting a cemetery at Mill Gully to pay his respects at a mate’s grave and noticing another grave for a 17th Battalion man named Logan.
Sergeant J E Bennett (164) wrote:
‘…Logan was in his company and went out in the charge at Hill 60 about 5 p.m. on 27/8/15. The charge was for trenches held at the time by the 16th Battalion, and was over open ground, and Logan did not reach the Turks trenches, nor did he return. The ground in between was covered with low scrub, about a foot or eighteen inches high, and some of it was set alight by bursting Turkish shells so that no discs or bodies could be recovered.’
Logan has no known grave and is remembered at the Lone Pine Memorial, which is located high above Anzac Cove.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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