Participant Info

Surname

James

First Name

Robert

Initial

W

Service Number

5689

Rank

gunner

Unit Served

1st Australian Machine Gun Company, late 3rd Battalion

Service Record

France

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

January 17

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

June 3

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 57, image page 56

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

James and Maud James

Parental Address

"Almaville", Notting Hill Road, Lidcombe

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Darlington, June 9, 1896, educated Lidcombe Public School, fireman, enlisted December 1915, embarked June 3, 1916. War service: France (Ypres, Menin Road, Somme, Bapaume, Villers-Bretonneux, etc), wounded Christmas Eve, 1916, three months in hospi