
FEA, James
Service Number: | 188 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 3rd Pioneer Battalion |
Born: | Leith, Scotland, 8 February 1882 |
Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Merchant Seaman |
Died: | Died of wounds, France, 23 August 1918, aged 36 years |
Cemetery: |
Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France Grave V. A. 31 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
6 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 188, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
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6 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 188, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is commemorated on the Sanday war memorial on the Isle of Sanday-Orkney, Scotland.
He hailed from Boloquoy on the island.
Sanday is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 50.43 square kilometres,it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands. The main centres of population are Lady Village and Kettletoft. Sanday is reached by ferry or by plane from Kirkwall on the Orkney Mainland.