• Parents - Amelia and Charlie

• Sisters - Annie, Alice, Millie, Esther & Mary

• Cec Hogan - Army mate

• Matron Reddock - nurse on Glenart Castle

1914 Jim turns 13 in Grade 8-last year at school - plays drums at school

4/8/1914 Britain declares war on Germany

1/11/1914 First Australian troops leave for war

April 1915 Jim begs parents to sign consent for him to join Army

12/4/1915 Jim enlists saying he is 18

25/4/1915 First Australian troops land at Gallipoli

28/6/1915 Jim leaves on the troopship Berrima

26/7/1915 Arrive in Heliopolis Egypt for desert training

30/8/1915 Left Alexandria on the Southland bound for Lemnos & Gallipoli

2/9/1915 Southland is torpedoed and Jim spends 4 hours in the water waiting to be rescued by the French while others drown. Jim deals with death for the first time.

8/9/1915 Jim's battalion lands at Anzac Cove in darkness and at first light climbs up the steep cliffs to take their position and life in the trenches. Death and disease are everywhere.

6/10/1915 Jim gets sick and refuses to seek medical treatment.

25/10/1915 Jim has lost half his body weight and collapses vomiting and bleeding and loses consciousness. He is taken by barge to the Glenart Castle hospital ship off Anzac Cove. He receives morphine for pain and is dead an hour later. Jim is buried at sea under the Union Jack.

11/1915 Jim's family receive a telegram and later a brief letter advising that Jim had died and was buried at sea.

• Guilt

• Breakdown of parents marriage

• Died of disease not injury

• Attended by nurse - mother figure

• Given pain relief but no treatment for disease

• Buried at sea under Union Jack not Australian flag

• Humour

• Mateship

• Innovation

• Pride

• Seymour, Vic

• Heliopolis, Egypt

• Patriotism and duty

• School cadets

• Adventure

• Coming of age - both the nation and the boy soldier

• Australia as an emerging nation in the Commonwealth (Federation)

• The horror of war

• Sacrifice and death

• Loss and grief