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Personal data John Alexander Meiling 

  • He was born on April 2, 1897 in Longreach Queensland, Australia.
    Birth registration:
    John Alexander Meiling
    Birth date:03/04/1897
    Mother's name:Margaret Sanderson
    Father/parent's name:James Meiling
    Registration details:1897/C/66
  • He died on October 11, 1917 in Belgium, he was 20 years old.
    Death registration:
    John Alexander Meiling
    Death date:11/10/1917
    Mother's name:Margaret Saunderson
    Father/parent's name:James Meiling
    Registration details:1922/F/5550
  • He is buried in Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium.
  • A child of James Meiling and Margaret Sanderson
  • This information was last updated on October 26, 2025.

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Notes about John Alexander Meiling

Birth: Apr. 2, 1897
Longreach
Queensland, Australia
Death: Oct. 11, 1917, Belgium

Inscription:
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

Note: 1087

Burial:
White House Cemetery
Ypres (Ieper)
Arrondissement Ieper
West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
Plot: III. D. 5.

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Originally Created by: International Wargraves ...
Record added: Nov 13, 2005
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1897-1917


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Historical events

Birthday April 2, 1897

  • The temperature on April 2, 1897 was about 6.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
    • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
    • July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
    • September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
    • September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
    • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

Day of death October 11, 1917

  • The temperature on October 11, 1917 was between 2.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
    • March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
    • March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
    • March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
    • March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
    • June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
    • November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.


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