MILITARY FUNERAL.
Friends of the late Private James John Bain (and family) are respectfully invited to attend his Funeral, which will leave his parents' residence, 74- Russell street, TO-MORROW (Thursday), the 4th 1 inst. at 2.30 p.m., for the Southern Cemetery.
HOPE AND KINASTON, Undertakers, 36 St. Andrew street. -Evening Star, 3/12/1919.
FOR THE EMPIRE'S CAUSE.
BAIN. — On December 2, at his parents' residence, 74 Russell street, Private James John Bain (No. 29719, 18th Reinforcements), beloved second son of James and Isabella Bain; aged 27 years. Deeply mourned. Military funeral. -Otago Witness, 9/12/1919.
James Bain was not a good soldier. He appeared in court in Dunedin in 1912 on a charge of failing to appear for parades as patr of the territorial army. He also failed to appear at court and was fined in absentia.
Joining the 18th Reinforcements in 1916, his Conduct Sheet shows that he was not a conscientious soldier in wartime. Overstaying leave and having little care for his uniform feature in the small number of charges against him.
PRIVATE JAMES BAIN.
Mrs Bain, of Russell street, has received word that her son, James John Bain, was wounded and gassed in the recent fighting in Flanders. Private Bain left with the 19th Reinforcements. His eldest brother, Second Lieutenant William A. Bain, died of wounds received in the Somme battle 13 months ago, and his younger brother "Bob" is now somewhere in France. -Evening Star, 3/11/1917.
James Bain was gassed on October 16, 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele. He spent time in Walton Hspital in England until being discharged as medically unfit almost exactly a year after his wounding.
He lived for barely a year more before succumbing to tuberculosis at his family home in Russell street, Dunedin.
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