George Ernest JACQUES
Service
number: 2188. Age:
25 years 7 months. Enlisted: 20 Mar 1916.
Occupation: Machinist. Next of kin: (mother) Mrs Catherine
Jacques.
Address
on enlistment: Albion.
Studio portrait of members of 49 Battalion.
George Ernest Jacques is front centre. [1]
Service
Summary:
20 Mar 1916: 4 reinforcement 49 Battalion.
16 Aug 1916: Embarked from Brisbane on HMAT
A42 Boorara.
7 Mar 1917: Wounded in action. Chest, arm
and right leg.
26 Sep 1917: Wounded in action. Right leg.
“Early in 1917, the battalion participated
in the advance that followed the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line,
supporting the 13th Brigade's attack at Noreuil on 2 April. Later in the year,
the focus of the AIF's operations moved to the Ypres sector in Belgium. There
the battalion fought in the battle of Messines on 9 June and the battle of
Polygon Wood on 26 September. Another winter of trench routine followed.” [1]
27 Apr 1918: Returned to Australia from Suez
on Karoola.
19 Nov 1918: Discharged.
Life
Summary:
George Ernest Jacques (1890-1962) was the youngest son of George
Gilbert Jacques (1852-1925) and Catherine McWilliams (1859-1924) and was born
26 Jul 1890 at Campbellville, Coochin Sawmill. The Jacques family lived at
Campbellville during the 1890s where George senior was a sawyer for James
Campbell & Sons. By 1912 the family were living at Albion where George Jacques
senior and junior were working at the Campbell’s sawmill. George Jacques senior
was the caretaker for Brisbane Tug & Steamship Company and postmaster on
Bribie Island from 1913-1914.
[1] Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
P12347.02 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P12347.002
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