![](/assets/poppy-90c5b4d15be02beb5cab9eecba1bed88a4bc8b79f40913a82c489426f92c088c.png)
JAMES, Gomer Lewis
Service Number: | 3498 |
---|---|
Enlisted: | 12 August 1915 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
Born: | Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 1898 |
Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Boulder Central School, Western Australia |
Occupation: | Brewer |
Died: | Died of wounds, France, 30 August 1916 |
Cemetery: |
Albert Communal Extension Cemetery, France Plot I, Row M, Grave No. 4, Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, Albert, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boulder Roll of Honor, Boulder Roll of Honour Board, Fremantle Fallen Sailors & Soldiers Memorial, Kalgoorlie St John's Anglican Church Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
12 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3498, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
---|---|---|
1 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3498, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
1 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3498, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Benalla, Fremantle |
Help us honour Gomer Lewis James's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Gomer James was most severely wounded at Mouquet Farm on the 29 August 1916, compound fractures to both legs and died of wounds the next day in the 13th Australian Field Ambulance. His brother 2900 Pte. Waldo Albert James 48th Battalion AIF had been killed in action at Pozieres 3 weeks on 6 August 1916. The two brothers both worked at the Boulder City Brewery before enlisting.