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James Lawrence Cain
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| Date of Enlistment: | 22 March 1915. |
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| Date of Death: | 20 April 1916. |
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| Service History: | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A55 Kyarra on 16 April 1915.
Joined Battalion on Gallipoli 27 June 1915. To hospital on 29 August 1915. Rejoined Battalion 8 January 1916. Embarked on Saxonia at Alexandria 27 March 1916. Disembarked Marseilles 3 April 1916. 9th Battalion War Diary, 20 April 1916. "At 1315 today the Billets occupied by C Company were subjected to heavy bombardment by the enemy: fifty or sixty shells H.E. were landed in the Billet area. Early in the bombardment a shell landed in one of the Caurus? Huts wounding four men. Some men ran to the assistance of the wounded and another shell caught them. A subsequent shell struck the wall of the Billet (Brick) and accounted for 47 casualties. The following are casualties: Killed 1 Officer (Lieut. Fothergill) 2 NCO’s 22 Privates Total 25 Wounded 1 Officer Capt. McKillop MO 9 NCO’s 40 Privates Total 50 All were buried in the English Cemetery the same evening. Capt. The Rev Lundie (Pres) and Fahy (RC) officiating. A Battery ours had been active all day and it appears as if the enemy were trying to get this battery. A Coy of 3rd battalion arrived 1930 and retired C Coy. The latter Coy marched to new Billeting area at Shilly le Lys. The rest of Bn is to be relieved tomorrow." |
| Next of Kin: | Thomas and Margaret Cain - Parents ; His father lived at Hergott Springs (south of Lake Eyre) South Australia, (Now renamed Marree because of the anti German sentiments in WW1) |
| Biographical notes: | Brothers: Sergeant Joe Cain,1898 5th Divisional Signal Company, Croix de Guerre, 18th Battalion; Lance Corporal Cyril F. Cain (759), 27th Battalion; Sapper A.N. "Roy" Cain (52557), 5th Divisional Signals Companies Engineers. |
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Service Record
Roll of Honour Embarkation Roll Nominal Roll Picture NT Unit War diary From Anzac to the Hindenburg Line : the history of the 9th Battalion, A.I.F. / by Norman K. Harvey C.M. Wrench, Campaigning with the fighting 9th (in and out of the line with the 9BN AIF) 1914-1919 (Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1985) Darwin Cenotaph |
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