ECCLESTONE, John Josiah
| Service Number: | 6503 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 23 December 1879 |
| Home Town: | Dowerin, Dowerin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 31 July 1951, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Boyanup War Memorial, Donnybrook Preston Road Board |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6503, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 13 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6503, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6503, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Suffolk, Fremantle | |
| 27 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6503, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), France - GSW left thigh and left arm | |
| 21 Jun 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6503, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), per Konigan Luise to Fremantle | |
| 9 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6503, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Jack was the third of ten children of William James Ecclestone (b1854 in Fremantle, WA) and Susan Stinton (b1853 in Fremantle, WA). William (a Farmer in Picton, WA) married in 1877 in Bunbury. They settled in Boyanup (near Bunbury)and raised their family. William was a Farmer.
Jack was a Farmer in Booralaming in Dowerin WA when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916 - in his Attestation Papers he declared Boer War service. Jack served as a Private (Service No:6503) with 16th Infantry Battalion. He was WiA in France in 1917 (GSW to left thigh and arm) and was Discharged in October 1919.
In 1920 Jack married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Molan (b1893 in Guildford, WA) and the couple settled in Booalaming, Dowerin where Jack was a Farmer until he retired in the late 1940s. Jack and Lizzie then lived in Cottesloe where Jack died in 1951 and Lizzie in 1977.
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