Joseph David (Jim) Wuchatsch

  General Notes:

Wuchatsch, Joseph David
Service Number: 17818
Rank/Calling: Driver
Unit: FCE [Field Company Engineers] - January to October 1917, Reinforcements (January-October 1917)
Ship Name: HMAT Marathon
Ship Number: A74
Date of Embarkation: 10/05/1917
Place of Embarkation: Sydney

Joseph David Wuchatsch enisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 7/9/1916. His certificate of medical examinaton describes him as: - age 30 years and 7 months, height - 5 feet 9 and a quarter inches, weight - 150 lbs, chest measurement - 33/36 inches, complexion - fresh, eyes - blue, hair - black and religious denomination - Presbyterian. His distinctive marks were: - Vacs 2 left arm, operation scar (appendicitis) - right abdomen, white scar chest, mole back neck and right shoulder blade and a scar on left knee.
Joseph served in France and returned to Australia per “Port Lyttleton” and disembarked on 5/8/1919.

Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) Saturday 19 March 1921. Page 11.
WUCHATSCH-COOK -On the 19th February at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Kyneton, by the Rev. B. P. Buntine (cousin of bride's mother) Joseph David (Jim late A.I.F.) youngest son of Johanna Caroline and the late John Wuchatsch of Pine Grove, Epping, to Marion Walker, eldest daughter of David Mitchell and
Jane Cook, " Rebank", Rochford. Present address, "Broxburn", Epping.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Farmer.

Joseph married Marian Walker Cook, daughter of David Mitchell Cook and Jane Armstrong, on 19 Feb 1921 in St Andrews Presbyterian, Kyneton, Victoria Australia. (Marian Walker Cook was born in 1881 in Rochford, Victoria Australia, died on 5 Jan 1968 in Reservoir, Victoria Australia and was buried in Thomastown Lutheran Cemetery, Victoria Australia.)