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Oscar JAMES

Regimental number4349
Place of birthNew South Wales
SchoolState School, New South Wales
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationHorse driver
AddressGraylands Street, Claremont, Western Australia
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation37
Next of kinWife, Mrs E E James, Graylands Street, Claremont, Western Australia
Enlistment date29 April 1917
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name2nd Pioneer Battalion, Reinforcement 12
AWM Embarkation Roll number14/14/6
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on 30 October 1917
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll48th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 3 May 1918
Place of death or woundingVillers-Bretonneux, 1918 France
Age at death38
Age at death from cemetery records38
Place of burialAdelaide Cemetery (Plot III, Row Q, Grave No. 3), Villers-Bretonneux, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
146
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Edwin and Anne JAMES; husband of Etta JAMES, Gibbon Street, Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia. Native of New South Wales

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