COFFEE, James Edward Alexander
| Service Number: | 39406 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 January 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | Field Artillery Brigades |
| Born: | Moama, New South Wales, Australia, 8 June 1897 |
| Home Town: | Moama, Riverina, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 20 November 1972, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jan 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 39406, Field Artillery Brigades | |
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| 30 Apr 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 39406, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Darwin embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 30 Apr 1918: | Embarked Gunner, 39406, Field Artillery Brigades, SS Port Darwin, Sydney | |
| 11 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 39406, Field Artillery Brigades, per HMAT Saxon | |
| 25 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 39406, Field Artillery Brigades |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gunner James Edmund Alexander Coffee (Service No:39406) was a Farmer at Millewa via Tottenham NSW in January 1918 when he enlisted in the AIF. He was hospitalised with pneumonia on board HMAT Port Darwin en route for Southampton, and served with 34th Field Artillery in England. He was attached to Field Artillery Brigades when he was Discharged in February 1919.
The fifth of nine children, James was born in 1897 in Moama NSW to George Robert Coffee (b1851 in Alberton, South Australia) and Rose Littlewood (b1871 in Meningie, South Australia). George was a Farmer in Moama NSW when he and Rose married in 1887. By 1919 the family were living in Millewa nr Tottenham, NSW where George was a Farmer on Oaklands Farm.
James was a Farmer on Oaklands Farm at Millewa NSW in 1921 when he married Amy Beatrice Sales (b1893 in Liverpool, NSW). James and Amy settled in Gunning, Eden Monaro NSW where James was a Roller Driver. In the late 1930s the couple moved to Sydney NSW where James worked as a Labourer and Driver. Following their Divorce, James remarried in 1952 - Bertha Nellie Woolf (nee Cohen; b1906 in Sydney, NSW) - Nellie was a Widow. James and Bertha lived in Bankstown, Sydney NSW, where James died in 1972. Bertha died in 1997.
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gunner James Edmund Alexander Coffee (Service No:39406) was a Farmer at Millewa via Tottenham NSW in January 1918 when he enlisted in the AIF. He was hospitalised with pneumonia on board HMAT Port Darwin en route for Southampton, and served with 34th Field Artillery in England. He was attached to Field Artillery Brigades when he was Discharged in February 1919.
The fifth of nine children, James was born in 1897 in Moama NSW to George Robert Coffee (b1851 in Alberton, South Australia) and Rose Littlewood (b1871 in Meningie, South Australia). George was a Farmer in Moama NSW when he and Rose married in 1887. By 1919 the family were living in Millewa nr Tottenham, NSW where George was a Farmer on Oaklands Farm.
James was a Farmer on Oaklands Farm at Millewa NSW in 1921 when he married Amy Beatrice Sales (b1893 in Liverpool, NSW). James and Amy settled in Gunning, Eden Monaro NSW where James was a Roller Driver. In the late 1930s the couple moved to Sydney NSW where James worked as a Labourer and Driver. Following their Divorce, James remarried in 1952 - Bertha Nellie Woolf (nee Cohen; b1906 in Sydney, NSW) - Nellie was a Widow. James and Bertha lived in Bankstown, Sydney NSW, where James died in 1972. Bertha died in 1997.