James Michie was a brewer's assistant at Dunedin's Speights Brewery when he enlisted in the Otago Infantry Regiment in 1916.
His military career was not a very dramatic one - he spent 5 days in hospital with scabies in April, 1918, before being killed in a German counter-attack at the French city of Bapaume the following August. At that stage in the battles of 1918 German resistance to the Allied advance, following the failed German Spring Offensive, was strong and bordering on desperate.
James changed his will in 1917, having received news of the death of his mother.
The battle of Bapaume was a savage one. James Michie was one of the many Otago men who fell on August 26th. He lies in the Grevillers British Cemetery in France.
Photo: Otago Witness, 25/9/1918.
Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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