James Edmund Douglas REEVES MM

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REEVES, James Edmund Douglas

Service Number:	681
Enlisted:	28 August 1915
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Port Augusta, Port Augusta, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Packer and Storeman
Died:	Died post-discharge of Tuberculosis, Renmark, South Australia, 17 September 1919
Cemetery:	Renmark Cemetery, S.A. Old Section. F2. Interred on the 18 September 1919
Memorials:	Glandore State Wards & Orphans Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

28 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 681, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 681, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 681, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 681, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
15 Nov 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 681, Mining Corps, Bomb wounds to the right thigh. Invalided to England from Boulogne on 21 November 1916 aboard H.S. St David
3 Feb 1917:	Honoured Military Medal, London Gazette on 22 January 1917, page 836, position 59 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1917, page 1395, position 62
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Sapper, 681
12 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 681, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 4th Military District as medically unfit due to Tuberculosis
Date unknown:	Honoured Military Medal

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He served with the 2nd Company Australian Tunnelling Corps. He was 27.

He was accepted, after research, for commemoration as Great War dead on 24/08/2012

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Mary Reeves of Port Augusta, SA

Brother of May Elizabeth Johnson nee Reeves

Returned to Australia on 4 September 1918 aboard HT Karoola

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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