NAME James Buller Bragg
BORN Totnes England Abt. 1888
DIED 1941
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 3768
UNIT 9th Reinforcements  17th Battalion
ENLISTED Sydney 19 August 1915
DISCHARGED Sydney 9 June 1919

 A James Buller Bragg is stated in the loan file as obtaining a block on Hillview Soldier Settlement – No. 328 – in the County of Cumberland, Parish of St Luke, Parramatta Land District. It consisted of six acres. The Military Serial Number 3768 is listed by both the National Archives of Australia and the Australian War Memorial as belonging to a Leonard Bragg not James Buller Bragg as stated in the loan file.[1]  However,  J.B. Bragg is listed on the Embarkation roll at the Australian War Memorial as the father and next of kin of Leonard Bragg as is James Buller Bragg listed as being next of kin on the National Archives dossier for Leonard Bragg. [2]

Footnotes

[1] The name given in the loan file as the holding of the block is James Buller Bragg SERN 3768.  The military dossier at the National Archives lists a Leonard Bragg as having the SERN 3768.

[2] AWM: Embarkation roll, http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/nominal_rolls/first_world_war_embarkation/person.asp?p=203548;   National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Leonard Bragg) online: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=3111159

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW:  Lands Department;  NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files; [12/7052   Loan No. ?] James Buller Bragg.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Leonard Bragg) online: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=3111159

Australian War Memorial:  Leonard Bragg SERN 3768 online: http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/nominal_rolls/first_world_war_embarkation/person.asp?p=203548