BURGESS, Francis Harold
| Service Number: | 1386 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 5th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Bombala, New South Wales, Australia, 26 November 1898 |
| Home Town: | Bombala, Bombala, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 29 October 1967, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-153. 41. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1386, 1st Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 4 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 1386, 1st Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 1386, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Sydney | |
| 2 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 1386, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
56 years ago today, on the 1st November 1967, Gunner Francis Harold Burgess, 5th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (Reg No-1386), blacksmith from Bombala, New South Wales and 8 Valencia Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1932), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 68. ANGLICAN 3-153. 41.
Born at Bombala, New South Wales on the 26th November 1898 to Isaac and Elizabeth (Eliza) Agnes Burgess; husband of Grace Victoria Burgess nee Neal (married 1921, Orange, N.S.W., died 22.9.1949, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 48, of 57 Valencia Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., sleeping here), Francis enlisted on the 3rd August 1915 with the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A47 Mashobra on the 4th October 1915.
Admitted to hospital 3.2.1916 (influenza, mild), 3.2.1918 (fever, influenza).
Granted leave to England from the 16.7.1918 to the 2.8.1918.
Francis returned home on the 25th May 1919, being discharged on the 2nd August 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.
Mr. Burgess’s name has not been inscribed on the Bombala War Memorials or any known War Memorials or Rolls of Honour.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Francis’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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