James Montrose MAUGHAN

MAUGHAN, James Montrose

    Service Numbers: 2569, SX21786
    Enlisted: 30 July 1915
    Last Rank: Major
    Last Unit: 27th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Adelaide, South Australia, 16 March 1893
    Home Town: Fullarton, Unley, South Australia
    Schooling: Sturt Street State School
    Occupation: Surveyor
    Died: Injuries, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 2 June 1943, aged 50 years
    Cemetery: Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld
    Memorials: Adelaide Sturt Street Public School Great War Roll of Honour, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Parkside Public School Roll of Honor
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    World War 1 Service

    30 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 27th Infantry Battalion
    4 Feb 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 2569, 27th Infantry Battalion, " We went up to one of the outposts, and I was standing on top looking at the wiring about 9.15 a.m., when a machine gun from the Butte caught me. I thought a shell had burst, & a square of broken ice had hit me in the stomach. Anyway, I dropped into a shell hole full of ice, & downed my britches to see what had happened. I was hit in the penis, and it gave me such a dreadful pain. I didn’t feel anything else. Col. Norrie & a couple of the fellows hopped out & started to had to be borrowed. It turned out I was hit in the left thigh & the right

    World War 2 Service

    20 Jul 1942: Enlisted Major, SX21786

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    Biography contributed by Thomas Clements

    James Montrose Maughan served as a lieutenant throughout the First World War until he was shot in the thigh and wrist. He later served in World War Two, where he was killed in a training accident.

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