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From cwgc: Name: LEE, JACK Nationality: Australian Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Unit Text: 24th Bn. Date of Death: 03/05/1917 Service No: 4135 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Memorial: VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL

Australian War Memorial (AWM) website have same photograph of him, the same information as CWGC above but also a location of his position on their war memorial buidling www.awm.gov.au/research/people/roll_of_honour/person.asp?... Also AWM, First World War Embarkation Roll Name: Lee, Jack, Service Number: 4135 Unit: 24 Infantry Battalion - 9 to 12 Reinforcements (February-April 1916)

AWM, Red Cross Wounded and Missing records. There is a digitized 7 page pdf document that outlines witness reports to his death, too much to write here. He was aged 22, possibly came from Victoria, his father was a farmer. Reports vary in exactness but it seems he was hit by a shell or one report thinks shot in the head. See www.awm.gov.au/research/people/wounded_and_missing/person... to read all the eyewitness accounts.

AWM - his basic service number details also listed on the FWW Nominal Roll Page AWM 133, 30-124 and also his date of enlistment of 16.12.15 www.awm.gov.au/research/people/nominal_rolls/first_world_...

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.a... allows a digital copy of service record to be viewed. (39 pages, some repeats) He was born Carlton, Victoria. His next of kin is mother Mary Annie Paine, father deceased. Enslited at Melbourne, Victoria. A natural born British subject. Trade/calling: Canvas Cutter. Physical description: height - 5ft 2 3/4 inches, weight - 126lbs, Fresh complexion, Dark bronw eyes, brown hair. Distinctive marks included in list are moles (cheek and shoulder( and scars (shin, calf, knee)on . Medical record includes bout of influenza. Two instances of absent without leave. Letter from his mum giving consent for the necessary tests for his enlistment. In London Sep 1916. Inventory of effects sent to his mother include money case, wallet, letter carrier, cards, photos, letters and 2 military books with letter sent with them and return letter from mother accepting receipt of items. Copy of Kack Lee's will leaving everything to mother in event of his death. Memorila scroll, Victory medal, Memorial plaque.

Congratulation for tour beautiful Album.

Historic Map 25 inch

The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, formerly Saint Mary's, was consecrated in 1879 www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

This is where Daly's Bridge (more commonly known as The Shakey Bridge) was later built. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/great-shakes-an-irishman-s-dia...

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The always-interesting John F. Finerty (nearly) strikes again in his excellent "Pictures of Ireland", published in 1898. On page 300, he talks about St. Vincent's Church in Sunday's Well and provides this description to go along with the image:



"ST. VINCENT'S CHURCH, SUNDAY'S WELL, CORK. -The sketch shows, seated picturesquely on an eminence above the river Lee, the Catholic Church of St. Vincent, which is the principal ecclesiastical edifice in the suburb of the city of Cork, known as Sunday's Well. It is so called from an ancient spring, said to have been made sacred to Druid rites before the era of Christianity in Ireland, and afterward utilized by the Catholic Fathers for baptismal purposes. The spring contains water peculiarly clear and cold, absolutely devoid of mineral flavor, and is much prized by the inhabitants of the district.

Owing to its fine situation, Sunday's Well was formerly much visited by the citizens of Cork, and many handsome homes existed there. The changes wrought by time, however, have not been favorable to the district as a fashionable residence locality, and the well-to-do people now build their dwellings elsewhere. Yet Sunday's Well is by no means abandoned, and the view to be obtained from the hill above the Lee, is regarded as one of the finest in the beauteous South of Ireland. There is a tradition to the effect that the gallant and ill—fated Lord Edward Fitzgerald resided, "on his keeping" in the vicinity, during the month of April, 1798. On his return to Dublin, he was captured, severely wounded and died in prison."

His birth was registered during the first quarter of 1897 at Macclesfield, Cheshire. He was born at Chelford, the son of Noel and Lilian Lee. The 1901 census puts him at Nether Alderley, Cheshire, near Macclesfield. He is aged 4 at the time, with his father Noel (33) a cotton manufaction merchant born at Bowden, Cheshire. His mother Lilian (32) was born at Newton Ferry in Wiltshire. His sister Josephine E, aged 3 also appears on the census form.

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