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Pte. James Alexander Meddings
Australian Imperial Force 8th Btn.
from:Torrumbarry, Victoria, Australia
Pte. James Meddings of the 8th Infantry Battalion, AIF sailed from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 14th of April 1915. He married Stewart Easton Morgan on 13th December 1916 at Gateshead. James gave his address as Whinney House, Gateshead, which was an Auxiliary Hospital. He had returned to England on the 14th of June 1916, having been hospitalised for a Gun Shot Wound to his arm. At that time he was meant to be under Field Punishment No. 2 for 56 days from about 5th of May 1916. James returned to Australia on the 6th of November 1918.
Seven months after the marriage, on 26 April 1917, Stewart married another Australian soldier Claude Milne, she didn't bother to divorce James Meddings first. Stewart went on to marry Vernon Collins, a New Zealand soldier, in 1918. She didn't bother divorcing her second husband either. Quite a story? Claude Milne went on to marry another seven times, all without benefit of divorce.

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