James Alexander THOMSON

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THOMSON, James Alexander

Service Numbers:	V57355, Ve/V57355
Enlisted:	4 July 1940
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	7th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mildura, Victoria, Australia , 20 September 1902
Home Town:	Mildura, Mildura Shire, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Surveyor
Died:	War Service related , Caulfield Military Hospital, Victoria, Australia, 29 August 1946, aged 43 years
Cemetery:	Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Captain, V57355
22 Feb 1940:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, Ve/V57355, 7th Infantry Battalion
4 Jul 1940:	Enlisted V57355, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF
26 May 1941:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, 7th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Captain James Alexander Thomson (Service Nos:Ve/V57355) served with Senior Cadets in Mildura before enlisting in the Militia on 5 January 1939 as a Private with 7th Infantry Battalion. Promoted to Lieutenant, he served in Darwin NT before Discharging on 22 February 1940. Lieutenant Thomson re - enlisted on 6 July 1940 and served with 7th Infantry Battalion - promoted to Captain on 26 May 1941. Captain Thomson was attached to 7th Infantry Battalion on 24 August 1946 when he 'died in Caulfield Military Hospital from a condition accepted as due to War Service' (NAA; 1947).

James was born in Mildura, Victoria in 1902, second of five children of Alexander Donald Thomson (b1867 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Jane Isabella Manson (b1879 in Palmerston, Northern Territory). Alexander - educated as a Civil Engineer and Architect - was a Horticulturalist in Mildura in partnership with his brothers in 1890. Alexander and Jane married in Renmarke, South Australia in 1900 and settled in Mildura where they raised their family and Alexander was a Shire Engineer and Surveyor.

James worked in Mildura as a Surveyor's Assistant when he left school and, in 1932 in Melbourne, married Evelyn May Morton (b1904 in Drouin, Victoria) - Evelyn was working in Melbourne as a Typiste. James and Evelyn settled in Mildura, where they raised their family and James was a Surveyor, and a Founding Member of the Mildura Tennis Club. James died in 1946 and Evelyn in 1997.

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