Military History

Embarked at Fremantle per ‘Mashobra’ for Suez 8.2.1915.
Roll Rank Trooper/Batman.
Roll Unit 10th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade.
Bax disembarked with the 10th Light Horse in Egypt. He embarked with Mediterranean Expeditionary Force for Gallipoli 16.5.1915. This Regiment is famous for its charge of the Nek 7.7.1915. Bax was sick with tonsillitis at Gallipoli 10.7.1915 and  was transferred by Hospital Ship to hospital at Mudros. Bax was transferred to Convalescent House 22.7.1915. He rejoined his Regiment 25.7.1915. He was then admitted to 1st Australian General Hospital with Synovitis 11.8.1915 and transferred to the 3rd Auxiliary Convalescent Hospital at Heliopolis 13.8.1915. He was then transferred to Helouan Hospital with dropsy (oedema) 18.8.1915. Bax was recommended for early return to Australia.
Embarked Suez per HT ‘Euripides’ 27.8.1915.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 24.9.1915.
Discharged 14.12.1915.
Final Rank Private, 10th Light Horse Regiment.
Medical Condition Invalided with enteric ascites.
Awards and Medals 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Bax was married in 1912. His wife he enlisted in 1915 and was invalided home that year. His wife Elizabeth Clara died 1917 (Sunday Times 19.7.1917). Bax remarried Irene and had a son Kevin who predeceased him in 1951. James Edwin Bax died August 1952, he was buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Karrakatta, WA.
Photos SS 'Mashobra'. Photographer unknown, photograph source Naval Collection Australian War Memorial P10509.023.001.
             Gallipoli, Soldiers at the ready in the firing line at Shrapnel Gully 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM H00195A
             Bax Elizabeth Obituary. Sunday Times 19.8.1917 p1
             'Euripides' 1915. Photographer Josiah Barnes, photograph source AWM PB0374

Information Source
AWM P10509.023.00. SS 'Mashobra'. Phootgrapher unknown, photograph source Naval Collection Australian War Memorial
AWM H00195A. Gallipoli, Soldiers at the ready in the firing line at Shrapnel Gully 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM PB0374. 'Euripides' 1915. Photographer Josiah Barnes, photograph sourced from the Naval Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll- James Edwin Bax
NAA: B2455, Bax J E 37
Sunday Times
Wise, H. and Co. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

Stephen Street, Guildford, WA. (Wife)

 

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