MCALISTER, James Ormond
| Service Number: | 2435 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 August 1916, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 37th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Clunes, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk |
| Died: | 29 May 1957, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2435, 37th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 20 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2435, 37th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2435, 37th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne | |
| 9 Mar 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Army Pay Corps (AIF), London | |
| 4 Jun 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 37th Infantry Battalion, France | |
| 13 Jun 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2435, 37th Infantry Battalion, GSW to left forearm. Evacuated to UK. Never rejoined unit. | |
| 14 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2435, 37th Infantry Battalion, RTA 6 November 1918 and discharged (MU). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
James Ormond McAlister, aged 27, enlisted in the AIF in Melbourne on 31 August 1916. He embarked overseas on 20 October 1917 and arrived in England, via Sierra Leone in Africa, on 9 January 1917.
On 8 March 1917, he joined the Army Pay Corps at the AIF Headquarters in London, where he remained until 30 March 1918.
After two months training, he left England on 27 May 1918 and was finally taken on strength of the 37th Battalion in France on 4 June 1918.
He had only been there a few days when he sustained a gunshot wound to his left forearm and was evacuated to hospital back in England. He spent the next three weeks in hospital however never fully recovered from his wound.
He embarked for Australia on 6 November 1918 and arrived in Melbourne on 1 January 1919, where he was medically discharged from the AIF on 14 June 1919.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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