HASTINGS, James Barr
Service Number: | QX18964 |
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Enlisted: | 8 January 1942 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Kit Stores |
Born: | Edinburgh, Scotland, 21 August 1909 |
Home Town: | Mackay, Mackay, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 18 June 1985, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
New South Wales Garden Of Remembrance |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
8 Jan 1942: | Involvement QX18964 | |
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8 Jan 1942: | Enlisted | |
8 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, QX18964 | |
6 Oct 1942: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 29th Infantry Battalion | |
18 Jan 1943: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Kit Stores | |
12 May 1943: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, Kit Stores | |
7 Jun 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, QX18964 | |
7 Jun 1944: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant James Barr Hastings (Service No:QX18964) enlisted in the Army as a Private on 8 January 1942 with 11 Training Battalion. He served with 2/31 and 29 Infantry Battalions before transferring to 2 HQ Army Kit Stores, and was promoted to Corporal (18 January 1943) and Sergeant (12 May 1943). Sergeant Hastings was Discharged on 14 June 1944.
Born in 1909 in Edinburgh Scotland, James Jnr was the eldest of four children of James Barr Hastings Snr (b1887 in Edinburgh, Scotland) and Margaret Bull (b1890 in Inverness-shire, Scotland). James Snr (a Labourer) and Margaret married in 1909 in Edinburgh, Scotland where they settled and raised their family and James Snr served in the British Army for twelve years - including five years with the Highlanders in WWI (Mentioned in Dispatches). In 1927 James and Margaret immigrated with their family, arriving in Brisbane, QLD on board the Orvieto and settling in Mackay QLD. James was a Waterside Worker and served in WWII (ACMF: Service No:Q187722).
James Jnr worked in Mackay as a Labourer and Bridge Carrpenter before enlisting in the Army in 1941. Following his Discharge, James Jnr returned to Mackay and in 1946 married Eileen Mary Davies (b1905 in Sydney, NSW). James and Eileen settled in Sydney, NSW where James was a Labourer. Eileen died in 1953, and in 1954 James remarried to Fay Marion Peek (nee Shipley; b1925 in Sydney, NSW) - Fay had served in the WAAF (WACI; Service No:176765). James and Fay settled in Sydney NSW where James was a Labourer and Cleaner. James died in 1985 and Fay in 2018.