MOLONEY, James
| Service Number: | 7479 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Walhalla, Vic., 1892 |
| Home Town: | Walhalla, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Saw Mill Hand |
| Died: | Bushfire victim trying to escape, O'Shea's Mill, Erica, Vic., 5 February 1932 |
| Cemetery: |
Erica-Moondarra Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jul 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Driver, 7479, Australian Army Service Corps | |
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| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Driver, 7479, 1st Divisional Train, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Driver, 7479, 1st Divisional Train, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 7 Apr 1916: | Transferred Driver, 46th Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 Apr 1919: | Embarked Driver, 7479, 46th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Australia on the SS Armagh 15/05/1919 LEST WE FORGET |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Mrs M Maloney, 'Moondara,' Gippsland, Victoria
He died in February in 1932 bush fires at Erica where he was a timber worker. He was living at Moondarra and enlisted from Erica He suffered from the horrible gas and had a bad cough but he worked hard. The young ladies thought he had TB which was around then so they didn’t want to go out with him. So when the fires came he chose to stay with his mate and also his lung system was not so good because of the gas. So sad for him as he was a handsome lovely young man and never married and had children because of the war.
BUSH FIRE DEATHS
Inquest At Erica Tomorrow
Stories of the February bush-fires will be related at Erica tomorrow, when an inquest will be held into the deaths of five timber millers and a school, teacher who were fatally burned when fire swept O'Shea's mill, nine miles from Erica. The men were caught between two fires when they tried to escape from the blazing mill to the Latrobe River.
The men were:— James Wm. Vague, 25, school teacher, of Knott's Siding; John Robert O'Shea, 36, mill owner; Wilfred Richards, Edward Miller (25), August Shultz, and James Moloney (33), mill workers.
The inquest. will be conducted by the Deputy Coroner (Mr J. V. Morgan).
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