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From: In Remembrance: Hungerford and Associated Families in the Great War 1914-1918

Maj Edmund Henry BURKITT
Captain
Unit Name: Australian Army Medical Corps

Religion: Church of England
Occupation: Medical Practitioner
Address: Dubbo, NSW
Age at Enlistment: 48 years and 7 months
Enlistment Date and Place: 1 September 1915, NSW
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Amy Theodora Burkitt, Dubbo, NSW
Rank on Enlistment: Captain
Embarkation Details: Unit embarked from Sydney, NSW, on board SS Makarini, 5 April 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll: Major
Unit from Nominal Roll: Australian Army Medical Corps (A.C.C.S.)
Campaigns Served: Egypt; France; Belgium
War Service/Promotions: On 18 May 1916 Taken on Strength of 14th Field Ambulance. He was transferred to the 2nd A.C.C.S., ex 14th Field Ambulance on 21 August 1916, went to France, caring for the endless wounded and dying young men in a Casualty Clearing Station at Ypres and Passchendaele, Belgium. He served continuously therein up to the time of his proceeding to England on 6 September 1917, en route for return to Australia. He was appointed a Temporary Major in the 14th Field Ambulance on 20 February 1917, and then promoted to Major on the 4 September 1917.
Fate: Returned to Australia per HMAT A29 Suevic, on 27 September 1917, arriving 18 November 1917. He married Amy Theodora Hungerford, 12 April 1898, in the Church of St Simon and St Jude, Bowral, NSW.
Place of Death: 14 November 1925, Coogee, NSW
Place of Cremation: Rookwood, NSW
Memorial Window: Memorial Window in Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Dubbo, NSW. He is also listed in the University of Sydney, Book of Remembrance.
Medals/Citations: British War Medal; Victory Medal

Note:
From The Medical Journal of Australia, 12 January, 1918.

On arrival in Egypt joined 14th Australian Field Ambulance at Tel-el-Kebir and, taking part in Desert March, was then stationed at Ferry Post and at Railhead near Suez Canal. Crossing to France, was adjutant from June to August, showing great concern for wounded in No Man's Land at Fromelles. Transferred to No.2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 21st August, 'doing very diverse and skilful surgical work'. In April, 1917, became one of a British team sent to No. 42 Casualty Clearing Station (CCS), Arras, for Battle of Vimy Ridge and rejoined CCS for Messines in June, returning 18 November. Contributed 'Surgical Notes from Western Front' during Summer Fighting, 1917'