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Pte. James Hislop Easson

Australian Imperial Force C Coy. 31st Battalion

from:27 Waltham St, Flemington, Victoria, Australia

665 Pte James Easson served with C Company, 31st Battalion AIF, 8th Brigade, 5th Division. He embarked from Melbourne on board the Wandilla on 8th November 1915. James trained in Egypt for six months before being transferred to France. He suffered a GSW (gun shot wound) back in an attack on the German trenches, near Fleurbeur, south of Armentieres on 21st July 1916.

"I was most fortunate to get out of it as I did and experienced the pleasure of lying in a shell hole in no man's land for two days. I was unable to move at all when first hit, and only hunger and a keen desire to live induced me to crawl on all fours and eventually reach our lines. Old Fritz did his best to complete the job, but the nearest little bit of lead lodged in my tunic pocket. Quite a good shot, but not good enough". Flemington-Kensington Church News, July 1917.



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