BACON, James
| Service Number: | 246 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 1 May 1902 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 12 May 1873 |
| Home Town: | Pittsworth, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Drover |
| Died: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 5 February 1943, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
North Rockhampton Cemetery, Qld Plot: ROMAN CATHOLIC Sec 6 Row 10 Grave No 50 |
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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
James Rudkin Bacon served twice in the South African (Boer) War. The nominal roll collated by P L Murray lists him as James Rudkin Bacon when he first served as a Private (rising to Corporal) S.N. 35 in the 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry. For his second service the nominal roll records him as James Bacon, however, the Boer War Dossier Attestation Paper held by the National Archives Australia includes his middle name of Rudkin for this service. Hi second service was as a Corporal S.N. 246 in the 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse.
James was born 12 May 1873 in Toowoomba, Qld, a son to John Ward Bacon and Julia Jane Bacon (nee Chambers). He married Laura Maud Ezzy in Qld on 11 Oct 1904 and James passed away in Rockhampton on 5 Feb 1943. During his first Boer War service he wrote several letters to home from South Africa which are held as a manuscript by the State Library of Qld (see links).
(sources: AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 467 & 536; National Archves Australia - Boer War Dossier).
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