James ARCHIBALD

ARCHIBALD, James

Service Number: 2612
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 56th Infantry Battalion
Born: Not yet discovered
Home Town: Temora, Temora Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, France, 2 April 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Barellan Brobenah Honour Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

7 Oct 1916: Involvement Private, 2612, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
7 Oct 1916: Embarked Private, 2612, 56th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 27 and the son of William and Mary Archibald, of Bush Cottage, Banchory, Scotland.

He is one of three locally born Australian soldiers of the Great War remembered on the Milnathort War Memorial in Perth and Kinross.

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

At the time of the 1911 Census, he was working with his uncle at Arlary Farm,  near Milnathort.