John Joseph BOURKE

Service Number:	93
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	1st Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Uralla, New South Wales, 1888
Home Town:	Uralla, Uralla, New South Wales
Schooling:	St Joseph's Convent School, Uralla
Occupation:	Railway Foreman
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Çanakkale, Turkey , 28 June 1915
Cemetery:	Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli III.C.19.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Moree ANZAC Centenary Memorial

World War 1 Service

20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 93, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 93, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney
28 Jun 1915:	Involvement Trooper, 93, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 93 awm_unit: 1 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-06-28

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

John Joseph BOURKE (Service Number 93), was born at Uralla on 24 April 1888. He began working for the NSW Railways as a cleaner at Narrabri West Locomotive Depot early in 1912 and a year later had progressed to fireman. On 20 August 1914, immediately after the outbreak of the war he joined the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Forces.
He embarked from Sydney on 20 October 1920 on HMAT ‘Star of Victoria’, and served in the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment. The Light Horse fought at the Dardanelles as infantry and Bourke was killed in action at there on 28 June 1915.
He is buried in the Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, about 400 yards S.E. of Anzac Cove.
(NAA B2455-3101288)

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