SHANNON, James
| Service Number: | 5514 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Moleton, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Raymond Terrace, New South Wales Australia , 1967, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Raymond Terrace General Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 5514, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Hawkes Bay embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 5514, 15th Infantry Battalion, SS Hawkes Bay, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Beth Scaysbrook
James (Jim) Shannon was born in Kiama - his parents later settled at Moleton in the Eastern Dorrigo district of NSW. One of 3 children, Jim went to Queensland looking for work and enlisted there. He was awarded the Military Medal and the Distinguished Service Medal for conspicuous gallantry when, as a stretcher bearer, he 'he was carrying wounded continuously for seven hours and showed no consideration for his own safety' (Amazon News ap-southeast-2) on 11 April 1917 during the attack on the Hindeberg Line. Jim returned to the Eastern Dorrigo and suffered from shell shock for the rest of his life. Towards the end of his life he was transferred from Coffs Harbour Hospital to Concord and the. To McGraths Home at Raymond Terrace where he died in 1967 and is buried in an unmarked grave. The Ulong and District Ex Services Club is in the process of raising money to remedy this. After he died his sister, Mary, donated his medals to the Club but they were lost when the Club burnt to the ground on 2 May 2003. Replica medals are now on display in the new Club. Neither Jim nor his siblings married or had children.
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