James Sydney Bryce

Service number: 2285

Rank: Private

Unit: 17th Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 15 April 1917

Cemetery or memorial details: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France

War Grave Register notes: BRYCE, Pte. James Sydney, 2285. 17th Bn. 15th April, 1917.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.

Mr Bryce was born at Balmain, to parents James and Mary Elizabeth Bryce. They lived at 43 Ocean Beach (North Steyne), and later 15 Pine Street, Manly. He attended Cleveland Street School Note 1. He was a member of the Manly Rifle Club pre-war. He enlisted aged 23 on 18 May 1915. He served with the 13th Battalion and 17th Battalion AIF.

He is commemorated on a headstone in Manly Cemetery, plot Y.096, alongside Alex J Bryce, whose name does not appear on the Corso War Memorial.

Note 1. Sydney Morning Herald 12 May 1917, p14.