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James Walton LEWIS

Regimental number175
Place of birthStawell, Victoria
SchoolStawell State School, Victoria
ReligionMethodist
OccupationGardener
AddressWarracknabeal, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation42
Next of kinBrother, Frank Lewis, Warracknabeal, Victoria
Enlistment date8 February 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name23rd Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/40/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 10 May 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll23rd Battalion
FateDied of disease 10 April 1916
Place of death or woundingEgypt
Age at death42
Age at death from cemetery records42
Place of burialCairo War Memorial Cemetery (Row F, Grave No. 29), Egypt
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
99
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: William and Mary LEWIS
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Wounded in action, Anzac, 20 September 1915 (bomb wound, right arm and right leg), and admitted to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station; transferred to 15th General Hospital, Alexandria, 25 September 1915; discharged to Montazah, 30 September 1915.

Died of smallpox, 3rd Australian General Hospital, Abbassia, 10 April 1916.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, LEWIS James Walton

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