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RESEIGH, James Harvey
| Service Number: | 6627 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 December 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | London, England, July 1878 |
| Home Town: | Thebarton (Southwark), City of West Torrens, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer / Postal Assistant |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Mile End, South Australia, Australia, 15 June 1948 |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia Plot N |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6627, 27 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6627, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Adelaide | |
| 1 Sep 1917: | Transferred 27th Infantry Battalion, Moved from Rollestone to Weymouth (pressumably to the training camp in Weymouth) | |
| 24 Sep 1917: | Transferred 27th Infantry Battalion, Moved from Weymouth to Park-House | |
| 27 Dec 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, 6627, 27 Infantry Battalion AMF, He was discharged because medically unfit (not due to misconduct) |
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James Harvey Reseigh was born July 1878 in London, England making him a natural born British Subject. He was 5’4 and had brown eyes, brown hair, and a medium complexion. James was a Methodist and had a family, his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Jane Reseigh, and three children. His occupation was as a Labourer and Postal Assistant. He lived in Thebarton, South Australia at the time he enlisted to fight in World War One and had no previous war, naval or army experience before enlisting.
On the 22nd of December 1916, James enlisted in the army in Adelaide at the age of thirty-eight. From that moment, he was a Private in the 27th Battalion. He embarked with his Battalion on the 24th of January 1917 from Adelaide and they disembarked at Devonport 27th of March 1917.
On the 1st September 1917 he was sent from Rolleston to Weymouth, presumably to the training camp there. On the 24th of September he was sent to Park-House and arrived on the 25th of September. He remained at Park-House for 2 months before was discharged on the 27th of December 1917 because he was medically unfit. James had spent his year and six days of service being transported to a couple training camps, experiencing little or no fight, before his supervisors realised he was medically unfit and then discharged him. His unknown medical condition or state did not impact his health colossally as James made his way back alive. He had the right motivation and intentions, to assist his country and do his part although being unfit to do so.
An article was found of his wife and daughters showing gratitude and thanks toward all who sent them flowers and other sympathetic gifts during their mourning after James' passing in 1948. If so, he died in 1948, around July and at seventy years of age. Not much more could be said about James or his life after the war apart from the death of his youngest daughter on the 7th of April 1920. James is buried at Cheltenham Cemetery with his Wife and youngest daughter, Enid.
Biography by - Year 9 Student, St Francis de Sales College, Mount Barker, South Australia, 2022