JAMES, William
| Service Number: | 7840 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 August 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 28 March 1879 |
| Home Town: | Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal miner |
| Died: | Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Waratah. New South Wales, Australia, 3 March 1945, aged 65 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 8 NW. 43. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Aug 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 7840, Tunnelling Companies | |
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| 21 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 7840, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 7840, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 3 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 7840, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), 2rd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
79 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 4th March 1945, Private William James, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-7840), coal miner from Kurri Kurri, New South Wales and Mount View Road, South Cessnock, N.S.W. (1936) and 13 Garland Lane, off Union Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. and New Lambton, N.S.W., father of one (William, born 1903, Lambton, N.S.W.), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 65. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 8 NW. 43.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 28th March 1879 to Moses, died 21.3.1912, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., age 69 of Pelaw Main, N.S.W., and Mary Ann James, died 31.1.1920, Brooks Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 75, mother of 9; husband of Ethel Gertrude James nee Forbes (married 1902, Lambton, N.S.W., died 25.3.1953?, Bondi, N.S.W., age?) of 9 Denham Street, Bondi, N.S.W., William enlisted on the 26th June 1917 with the Tunnelling Companies at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A71 Nestor on the 21st November 1917.
Admitted to hospital 27.6.1918 (myalgia).
Granted leave to France from 9.1.1919 to 27.1.1919.
Commenced return to Australia 11.5.1919.
William arrived home on the 1st July 1919, being discharged on the 3rd October 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.
Mr. James’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Kurri Kurri Soldiers' Memorial or the Kurri Kurri Methodist Church Roll of Honor.
I will place poppies at William’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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