Rank: 
Private
Service number: 
312
Unit: 
3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Location: 
Villers-Bretonneux, France
Eyewitness to:
Packet number: 
6035
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/6035

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He is my father, but I know so little about him. He was married twice in his life and he has a son, who like me was born out of wedlock. I believe he was gassed twice in the war and shot in the hip, came home on the 'Main'. The first time I can remember, he took me and my cousins camping, later I remember seeing him in the Repat Hospital and then in Kalyra Hosp. This Hosp. was for TB patients, he got TB while in the trenches. I would love to find out more about him, I am making a family tree for my kids.

Hello Elva,
Thanks for your comment. To find out more about John Hames be sure to follow the link to his war service record on the National Archives of Australia website and check out this page on our Military Resources Library Guide about researching a person who served in WWI http://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/content.php?pid=76180&sid=564139 or you might also find our Family History Starter Guide useful http://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/familyhistorygettingstarted
You can also submit an online query to our research service Ask Us! http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=387
Kind regards
Joanna

John Hames is my great uncle. Uncle to my mother. Elva Currie is welcome to email me if she would like to. Heather Cuthbert.

Heather Cuthbert, would like to hear more about my dad, sorry I am not on my computer often as I have a lot of bad health problems (not Covid-19, thank god), a bad back that keeps me flat.

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