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Son of James Airedale and Anne Midgley; husband of Lyal Mary Midgley, of Norman Park.

JAMES MORGAN MIDGLEY
At the Roscmount Military Hospital, Brisbane, James Morgan Midgley died at 3.30 p.m. yesterday aged 29 years. He had been ill for some months, his condition of health bringing  about his discharge from the A.I.F. after returned from the Middle East.
Recently, he underwent a major operation following which complications of a serious nature developed from which he never rallied. During last week close relatives were in  constant attendance at his bedside.

The late Jim Midgley was born in Bundaberg and as a youth joined the mechanical staff of the “News-Mail" rising to a position of importance which he relinquished in order to join  the A.I.F, shortly after the outbreak of the war. He, in his youth, was a prominent athlete being specially accomplished at cricket and tennis in which games he represented his  home town.

He married Lile, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Palm, a well known Bundaberg family, who with her two children, Morgan, aged 5, and Lynette aged 3 are left to mourn their sad  loss. He is also survived bv his mother, three sisters. Mrs. V. R. Stuckey, Mrs. J. Gahan and Miss K. Midgley, all of Bundaberg and four brothers. Harry (Sandgate), Max (Brisbane),  Fred, a Lieutenant in the Australian Forces, and E. A. (Ted) who is also in the A.I.F. stationed in Victoria. He is to be buried at Toowong Cemetery.