Hubert Charles JASON

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JASON, Hubert Charles

Service Number:	4118
Enlisted:	21 July 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Long Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Draper
Died:	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, May 1969, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:	Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Bendigo Myers Employees Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

21 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4118, 3rd Infantry Battalion
21 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 23rd Infantry Battalion, 10th Reinforcements
7 Mar 1916:	Involvement Private, 4118, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
7 Mar 1916:	Embarked Private, 4118, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
20 Apr 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 59th Infantry Battalion, Duntroon Plateau in Egypt
19 Jul 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4118, 59th Infantry Battalion, Boulogne, France - Shell Shock
29 Aug 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 57th Infantry Battalion
15 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 15th Machine Gun Company
22 Aug 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4118, 15th Machine Gun Company, per Anchises to Melbourne
7 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4118, 15th Machine Gun Company

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Hubert was the second of four children of Charles Hubert Jason (born 1874 in Bendigo, Victoria) and Edith Annie Bone (born 1872 in Clunes, Victoria). Charles was a Carrier, Hotelkeeper and Cab Driver in Bendigo, Victoria and married Edith in 1895 in Bendigo, Victoria.

Hubert stated he was a Draper in Bendigo when he enlisted in the AIF in July 1915. He served as a Private (Service No:4118) with the 3rd, 23rd, 59th and 57th Infantry Battalions and 15th Machine Gun Coy in Egypt and France. He was WiA (Shell Shock at Boulogne in France in 1916) and Discharged in November 1919. Brother in Law Thomas Earl Edwards (Private; Service No:2401) served in WWI, and Brothers in Law John Henry Edwards (Private; Service No:QX10577); William Caldwell Edwards (Corporal; Service No:QX10578) and Sidney Edgar Edwards (Corporal; Service No:VX47334) served in WWII.

Returning to Bendigo following his Discharge, Hubert married Doris Rose Edwards (born 1903 at Menzies in Western Australia) in 1922 in Bendigo. Hubert and Doris moved to Melbourne, Victoria where Hubert worked as a Letter Carrier, Body Fitter, Labourer and Motor Employee. Hubert died in 1969 in Melbourne and Doris in 1997.

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