Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

04/04/1916

Date of Discharge

27/11/1919

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Other Name(s)

Known as 'Jim'

Date of Birth

04/01/1893

Place of Birth

Tidbinbilla ACT

Address (at enlistment)

32 Harbour Street, Mosman NSW (previously Tidbinbilla ACT)

School(s) Attended

Tharwa Public School, Church Rock Valley School (Tidbinbilla), St. Patrick's College (Goulburn)

Occupation

Customs officer

Next of Kin

John Noone (father), 32 Harbour Street, Mosman NSW

Service Number

15723

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

15 Field Company Engineers AIF

Military Medal. The Citation reads: "This sapper at Polygon Wood during operations 25/26/27 September, accompanied his officer Lt. Ewart in the staking and taping of the track marked out from our front line to the objective we were to gain. He personally carried stakes to and from the dump behind our front line forward to the head of the track. Subsequently he rendered great assistance in the consolidation of the line, setting a very fine example to his comrades by his actual work and supervision of the infantry at work on the consolidation. He has since carried out further able and cool work in the face of much machine gun fire in making another track to the front line in daylight on the 27th inst."

Jim Noone was one of three brothers from the Tidbinbilla district who served in the war. He was working as a Customs Officer in Sydney when he enlisted in April 1916 and served with the 15th Field Company Engineers in France and Belgium from April 1917 at Bullecourt and Polygon Wood where, in September 1917, he earned the Military Medal. In February 1918 he attended the Officers Cadet School in the UK and was appointed a Lieutenant in November 1918. During 1919 he attended college in Edinburgh before his appointment was terminated in November 1919. He joined his brothers Ted and Hubert in partnership at 'London Bridge' near Burra but they sold the property in 1928. He then became a real estate agent and, in the late 1920s, formed a partnership with Leslie Joseph Tingyou (later LJ Hooker) before eventually retiring to Tweed Heads. Noone died in 1985 aged 92 years. He was possibly the author of a poem called 'Sunny Jim' about a mate who was killed near Ypres.

Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 158 pounds, chest 33-38 inches, fair complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Catholic.

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Queanbeyan Age - 28 December 1917
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Information provided by Michael Noone