BOE, James
| Service Number: | 1916 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 January 1915, Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland., 1886 |
| Home Town: | Cumnock, Cabonne, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Stranraer Academy |
| Occupation: | Plumber |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Chalk Pits, Pozieres, France. , 20 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1916, 4th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 13 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1916, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1916, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 1916, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1916 awm_unit: 1 Light Trench Mortar Battery awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-07-20 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front
Joined 4th Bn at Gallipoli, 17 June 1915.
Wounded in action, 6-9 August 1915 (gun shot wound, left hand); admitted to HT 'Caledonia', 7 August 1915, and transferred to No 1 General Hospital, Heliopolis, 10 August 1915; to No 3 Auxiliary Hospital, 10 August 1915; to Convalescent Camp, Helouan, 15 August 1915; to Base Details, Zeitoun, 24 August 1915; embarked Alexandria, 18 October 1915; rejoined 4th Bn, Gallipoli, 3 November 1915.
Disembarked Alexandria, 29 December 1915 (general Gallipoli evacuation).
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 23 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 30 March 1916.
Appointed Lance Corporal, 21 April 1916.
Transferred to 1st Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery, 19 April 1916.
Killed in action, 20 July 1916.
Personal belongings returned to next of kin included two chests, one containing approximately 90 tools, the other containing miscellaneous items, including six books on plumbing and a book of Burns' poems.
He is also commemorated on the war memorial in Stranraer Parish Church
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
1st Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Infantry. Aged 29.
Son of John and Elizabeth McColm Boe, of 15, Clenoch St., Stranraer.
Emigrated aged 25. He was a keen footballer. Captain of the Stranraer "J.M.C.A." team in 1908. A Free-mason. Remembered on the Stranraer Town War Memorial which stands at the side of the main road from Stoneykirk in front of the Sheriff courthouse in Lewis Street. It is of grey polished granite with a Scottish soldier in Bronze on top.
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