Detail victim

Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Ballarat
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Ballarat, Victoria
• Family Only son of John James and Mary Elizabeth Stewart (nee Price), of 129, Sturt St., Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Education Attended the Cathedral Sunday School and was in Miss Lindon Parkyn’s Bible Class
• Profession Railway employee
• Extra info Buried by Rev. A.J.Morrison

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 7 July 1915, Ballarat
• Service number 4311
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Medals 1914-15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 3rd Light Railway Operating Coy. Australian Engineers
• Other data related to military career Enlisted with 13/14th Battalion; embarkation Melbourne 29 December 1915; to France June 1916; transferred to Anzac Light Railways January 1917; detached to Assistant Director Light Railways 4th Army Coxyde July 1917

Death

• Wounded Pacific Ammunition Dump/Rest Camp just outside Poperinge; shell fell on his hut; died on his way to CCS
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - GG - 5A

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