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As Jim served beyond WW2 his records are still with the Central Army Records Office. You can contact the National Archives and they will acquire his records, examine them to determine what parts can be publically released, and then give you a quote to digitise them. This may take awhile but the online enquiry form to start the process is here:
http://reftracker.naa.gov.au/reft100.aspx?key=06PostWarDefRef
More information:
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/service-records/army-after.aspx
Thanks for this appreciate it
These records are likely to have his date of death recorded, especially if he was a career soldier.
Before that I would try emailing CARO to ask if they can give you just a death date. I don't know if they will do it but there is no harm in asking. Refer them to this link already given earlier as that is the service number that all his records will be held under:
http://www.koreanroll.gov.au/veteran.aspx?id=1218738
Their email address is ADF.Records@defence.gov.au
Debra
If you learn anymore about your great gran, Sarah, let us know. Maybe the older family members will be able to recall something to help pin her down. Ask if they know where she was living in 1939, or where she lived until her death, with an address we can search electoral rolls. She HAS to be found somewhere. Any idea if she had a man in her life in her later years?
Several years ago now, an RChatter posted some information about their ancestor, including their name. I asked if the person was no longer living. The RChatter assured me that they had attended the funeral.
I was able to confirm that the person they were naming was NOT deceased, as they were in a Care Facility to which I was a regular volunteer visitor.
I have elderly rellies, who are definitely alive, alert and who follow my posts on threads here at RChat. I have had several phone calls today from them, concerned that you have not actually confirmed that Jim is no longer living. He may simply have lost contact with his UK relatives, who may in turn have assumed he died.
JM
Hi, Jim died before I was born and I was born in 87 that much I do know. The rest is mystery. My grandmother was the last to die out of all siblings in the UK and the 2 who were living in Australia. Unfortunately by the time I started this project she was suffering with Alzheimer's.
Which country for his death?
NSW BDM online index for deaths is up to 20 August 1986 as that is 30 years ago.
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Pages/family-history/family-history.aspx
Please read through all the posts, and click on each live link ... you may well be confusing several chaps with your Jim. Merlin has shown one example of your own confusion with another with a middle name.... How are you sure that he died before you were born .... is this based on oral history only? Are you sure that it is not simply a case of 'lost contact'
JM
Also I noticed that on some of the photos on the Australian war memorial site, in some of the description he's called private J.... Michael H...., although he doesn't have a middle name on his birth record.
He never used the name *Michael*. You have used another person's identity
http://www.koreanroll.gov.au/veteran.aspx?id=1223253
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/SWEJ0111/
ooooops. Yes I went looking myself on there and got a bit out of my depth there. Apols
