Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

19/01/1916

Date of Discharge

03/06/1919

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Other Name(s)

Known as 'Jimmy'

Date of Birth

29/06/1889

Place of Birth

Berridale NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Queanbeyan NSW (previously Tidbinbilla ACT)

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Jane Muir (mother), Barrack Burn, Queanbeyan NSW

Service Number

2824

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

2 Machine Gun Squadron, 2 Light Horse Brigade AIF

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Roll of Honor Queanbeyan Public School, Isabella Street, Queanbeyan NSW
Roll of Honour at St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Lowe Street, Queanbeyan NSW

Jimmy Muir grew up in the Tidbinbilla/ Uriarra area until at least 1902 when his father died accidentally, sometime after which the family moved to Barrack Burn near Queanbeyan. Muir was known as a gun-shearer, working at properties such as 'Tuggeranong' and 'Lanyon' as well as for Richard Moore and Everard Crace of 'Gungahleen'. His grandfather, Archie McIntyre, worked for the Cunningham family for many years. Muir served in Palestine with the 2nd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron as a Driver. He returned to Australia in March 1919 with an injured toe and was discharged on 3 June 1919. In 1920 he was allocated a 555 acre soldier settlers block, 105b in Pialligo, which was known as 'Honeysuckle' and where Muir lived with his wife Hazel (nee Neale), whom he married in 1920. He died on 5 July 1980 and is buried in the Tharwa Road Cemetery. His brothers William and John also served in World War 1.

Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 146 pounds, chest 34-36 ½ , fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England, unmarried, scar on left oxilla, outer ends both collar bones prominent (old injury).

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Peter Procter, 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan', Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001
Marilyn Folger, 'McInnes Family of Gilbert and Mary', 1998
National Archives (A361) DSG23/1417 Block number 105B Gungahlin, J. Muir Mortgage stock file
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.2, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
Queanbeyan Age - 24 April 1917, 11 December 1917
The Canberra Times - 8 July 1980