PENDER, James Robert
| Service Number: | 3458 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 July 1915, Geelong, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 July 1877 |
| Home Town: | Geelong West, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Watchman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 2 July 1916, aged 38 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3458, 14th Infantry Battalion, Geelong, Vic. | |
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| 11 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3458, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3458, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 2 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3458, 14th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Prior to enlisting, James Robert "Jim" Pender played 15 games (1898) with the Carlton FC in the VFL.
According to several eye witness accounts, on 2 July 1916, while serving as the batman to Second Lieutenant Robert David Julian, and having been told that his officer (and good friend) Julian had been shot while in charge of a party raiding the German trenches, was impaled upon barbed wire in "no man's land", and very possibly dead, and that the others (also wounded) fighting with him had been unable to bring him back to the Australian lines, Pender went out to find him and bring him back.
Pender did not return to the Australian lines, and was never seen again (and neither was Julian).
Pender was declared "missing in action" in July 1916; and was officially declared "killed in action on 2 July 1916".
Source: Wikipedia and Robert Wight