NOONAN, James
| Service Number: | 2084 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Sep 1915: | Involvement Sapper, 2084, 2nd Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
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| 6 Sep 1915: | Embarked Sapper, 2084, 2nd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney |
2084 SAPPER JAMES NOONAN 1894 - 1982
James (Jim) Noonan was born in 1894. He was a carpenter living in Carlton, Melbourne when he enlisted in the AIF on the 2nd Sep 1915 at age 21. He was allocated as a Sapper to the to the 2nd Field Company Engineers and, after basic training, was deployed to Zeitoun, Egypt and then onto Gallipoli where he disembarked in November. Two weeks later, on the 24th November 1915, he was wounded at ANZAC when he was hit by shrapnel to his head and chest. He was evacuated to hospital in Malta and in December 1915 he was listed as seriously ill and he remained on the SI list until early January 1916. Jim stayed in hospital until he was embarked for return to Australia at the end of January. He was discharged from the AIF (one year after he enlisted) in September 1916. James was left with disfigurement of his jaw as a result of his war injuries. He never married and spent the rest of his life in Victoria. He died in 1982 in Yarraville, Victoria, at the age of 88. There is a plaque commemorating him in the Victorian Garden of Remembrance
Submitted 11 October 2020 by Gary Ewart
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