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• Name JAMES
• Initials WM
• First name WILLIAM MAURICE
• Place of birth Collingwood
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Family Son of Elijah Uriah and Annie James, of 21, Mater St., Collingwood, Victoria, Australia; second youngest of six children

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Melbourne, Victoria on 19 April 1915
• Service number 1917
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 22nd Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 6th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Wounded in 1916; after recovering in England, he returned in September 1917; Embarkation in Melbourne on 26 August 1915; to France on 26 March 1916

Death

• Wounded Gunshot wounds head and shoulder, admitted on 5 August 1916; back to unit on 12 September 1917
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n°17 CCS
• Date of death 4 October 1917
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - F - 6A

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