James Parkhouse BARRON

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BARRON, James Parkhouse

Service Number:	1727
Enlisted:	9 January 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, 14 August 1893
Home Town:	Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland
Schooling:	Forres Academy, Scotland
Occupation:	Civil servant
Died:	Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 4 September 1916, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

9 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1727, 9th Infantry Battalion
8 Apr 1915:	Involvement Private, 1727, 9th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of England embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: ''
8 Apr 1915:	Embarked Private, 1727, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Star of England, Brisbane
4 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 1727, 13th Machine Gun Company, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1727 awm_unit: 13th Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-09-04

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

1727 Private James Parkhouse Barron, 13 Company, Machine Gun Corps AIF, killed in action, Mouquet Farm, 4 September 1916. Age 23. Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. Son of David Donald and Jeannie Barron, of Strathcona, Forres, Scotland.

born at Dufftown, Banffshire, 14 August, 1893.

James Parkhouse Barron was born in Scotland and came to Australia around 1912. He arrived in Sydney and went north to Queensland to learn farming and fruit growing. He was working in Warwick, Queensland and travelled to Brisbane to enlist at the start of 1915.

James served from May 1915 at Gallipoli with the 9th Battalion. He served right through to the evacuation. During early 1916 he was transferred to the 49th Battalion and then to the 13th Machine Gun Company. He was killed in action during the 13th Brigade’s attack on Mouquet Farm 3 September 1916. According to his Red Cross wounded and missing file he was with about 10 men of his unit when a heavy enemy shell collapsed a trench on them. All were dug out safely except for James Barron who could not be found.

The Australian War Memorial holds a collection relating to service of 1727 Private James Parkhouse Barron, it includes letters written to family. A copy of letter 19 September 1927 on held by AWM is from Jeannie Barron (mother) "I think it is a beautiful idea to preserve any relics of the dear lads who came so far to lay down their lives for us..."

James had a younger brother who died of illness serving with the Royal Navy, aged only 19 years. Stoker Ronald Andrew Barron passed away on 10 September 1918, in the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, Hampshire, England.

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