ALLAN, James
| Service Number: | 2 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lanarkshire, Scotland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Bundamba, Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | GSW to abdomen and R wrist, near Rainecourt, France, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 6 August 1968, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: | Bundamba War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 42nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 5 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 2, 42nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 2, 42nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 3 Feb 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2, 42nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 24 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2, 41st Infantry Battalion, per Bakara | |
| 16 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2, 41st Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
James, born 1877 in Lanarkshire, Scotland was the third of eight children of James Allan (born 1857 in Ayrshire, Scotland) and Margaret Stevenson Osborne (born 1855 in Ayrshire, Scotland). Parents James and Margaret and siblings emigrated to Australia in 1911, and James and his wife Mary Margaret McDonald Rennie (born in 1884 in Edinburgh, Scotland) followed in 1912 on board the Waipara. James and Mary were married in 1909 and James worked as a Miner.
Younger brother Fergus also served in the AIF in WWI
James and Mary and their three children were living at Perret's Hill, Bundanba, Ipswich in 1915, where James was a Coal Miner. He served in the AIF with the 41st and 42nd Battalions as a Private (Service No: 2). In 1917 James was WIA in France, and was Discharged in November 1919.
Following the War, James and Mary lived in Ipswich, QLD where James worked as a Coal Miner until his death in 1950.
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