The name Tamsett resonates throughout the western part of Sydney over decades, from being highly respected members of the Baulkham Hills Methodist Community pre-WWI to donating to a football trophy bearing the family name fought for by the likes of none other than Reg Date and Artie Quill during the second war.
James Alwyn Tamsett’s name will also live on, written into the cemetery at Lone Pine. was laid to rest at sea after suffering fatal abdominal wounds from a shell blast just months after signing up.
Enlisting with two friends from the same street in Granville in April of 1915, Tamsett, also a promising cricketer with the Central Cumberland club, was assigned to the 4th Battalion 5th reinforcements and was seriously wounded from a bomb explosion near his abdomen at Gallipoli. The former Granville Rechabites half back was evacuated on HMS Sicilia and died of his wounds. He was buried at sea.
James had two cousins who served and were also killed on active service.