John Edwin JAMIESON

JAMIESON, John Edwin

Service Number: 1366
Enlisted: 25 November 1914
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 8th Infantry Battalion
Born: Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, 1896
Home Town: Williamstown, Hobsons Bay, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 24 May 1915
Cemetery: Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Williamstown Pictorial Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

25 Nov 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1366, 8th Infantry Battalion
2 Feb 1915: Involvement Private, 1366, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: ''
2 Feb 1915: Embarked Private, 1366, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Reported as missing 25 April 1915 and then buried 24 May 1915. Lot of confusion about date of death re 25/4/1915 and 24/5/1915. Reported by one man to have been wounded on the 26 April 1915. Initially buried at Isolated Graves, Anzac, south side of Clarke's Gully, about half a mile south east of Anzac cove (exhumed and reinterred) in Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey during April 1921.