James Joseph HEALEY

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HEALEY, James Joseph

Service Number:	242
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Queensland, Australia, 30 January 1878
Home Town:	Beenleigh, Logan, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Itinerant Teacher, Laborer
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19 December 1921, aged 43 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Balmoral Cemetery, Qld Plot: 5-136
Memorials:

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 242, Queensland Imperial Bushmen
18 May 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 242, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900.
26 Apr 1901:	Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 242, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 484 notes slightly wounded at Oliphant's River 26 Apr 1901.
10 Aug 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 242, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 477 notes 4th QIB embarked 5 Jul 1901 aboard Britannic returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 5 Aug 1901, disbanded 10 Aug 1901.

Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

James Joseph Healey was born on 30 Jan 1878 in Queensland, Australia, a son to Patrick Healey and Mary Ann Healey (nee Dunn).

After returning from the Boer War he worked as an Itinerant Teacher servicing remote rural grazing properties in Western Queensland which proved to be arduous work. Still single in 1921, he returned to Brisbane and took a labouring job with the railways at the Roma Street Goods Yard where on 19 Dec 1921 he collapsed and died while working.

(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 484; Friends of Balmoral Cemetery- Healey Bio; Death Notice, Daily Standard, 20 Dec 1921).

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