HUNTER JAMES  Jim

Service Number 3487A    49^th Battalion 9^th Reinforcements

Born  :  8^th April 1891 Jimboomba

Died : 31st December 1977 Queensland                           (86 Years 8 Months 23 days) 

Buried : Lawm Cemetery, Warrill Park

Parents: John Henry Hunter and Emily Mary nee Trace                            

Wife:

Enlisted : 23^rd October 1916 Brisbane

Embarked : 24^th January 1917 HMAT A33 Ayrshire

 Returned to Australia : 1^st May 1919 China

Medals British War Medal 27191

           Victory Meda      l 26085

Connection  :  Pioneer Descendant “Trace”                

                           HUNTER John Henry

Service Number 3504 49^th Battalion 9^th Reinforcements

Born :  24 Aug 1889   Jimboomba

Died :  Polygon Wood 26^th Sept 1917  Belgium,          (28 years 1 month 2 days)

Buried : Buttes New British Cem, Polygon Wood, Belgium

Parents : John Henry Hunter and  Emily Mary nee Trace

Wife :

Enlisted : 25^th October 1916 Brisbane

Embarked : 24^th January 1917 HMAT A33 Ayrshire

Medals : British War Medal    55542

             Victory Medal          54662

Memorial Scroll and Plaque  332546

Connection : Pioneer Descendant  “Trace”

Grave rediscovered in September 2006 by Belgium workers building a gas line near Zonnebece 

Hunter identified by DNA match with Niece reinterred in Buttes Cemetery 4th October 2007