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BATTESON, James

Subjects

  • WW1
Author: 
Jill Fenwick
Family name: 
BATTESON
Given names: 
James
Gender: 
Male
Date of birth: 
1 January 1874
Place of birth: 
Birth Stirlingshire
, United Kingdom
East Melbourne addresses
Year: 
1914
1915
1017 Punt Road
, East Melbourne, Victoria
, Australia
Military service: 
WW1
Regimental number: 
1214
Rank: 
Private
Military units: 
23rd Battalion, D Company
Biographical notes: 

James Batteson is present on the enlistment records, but appears not to have a service record. All that is recorded is that he was aged 41, a labourer, living in Punt Rd. East Melbourne, making his date of birth probably 1874. He was attached to the 23rd Battalion, D Company, and set sail on the HMAT 'Euripides' A14 on 10 May, 1915. His next of kin was his brother, W. Batteson, living in Stirlingshire, Scotland, which suggests that he was born in Scotland. his name appears on the Australian Electoral Roll as living in Rason Street, South Belmont, Western Australia in 1936 and 1937, working as a farm hand, but there are no earlier or later records.

Acknowledgments: 

Australian War Memorial, Unit Histories, Enlistment Records.

Australian National Archives, Enlistment Records

Ancestry.com.au, Australian Electoral Rolls 

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