BOURNE, Harry Cyril
| Service Number: | 493 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 August 1914, Enlisted at Randwick, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Dungog, Dungog, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Tamworth Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Railway Employee |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 20 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Plot 11, Row E, Grave 10, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Tamworth ANZAC Park Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 493, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Randwick, NSW | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 493, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 493, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney | |
| 20 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 493, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 493 awm_unit: 2 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1915-05-20 |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Harry Cyril BOURNE (Service Number 493) was born on 15 December 1889 at Tamworth. He had begun work as a probationer in the Traffic Branch in the Murrurundi district. In 1907 he became a junior porter, briefly in Sydney District but quickly returning to Murrurundi, where he remained until 1911, when he became a night officer successively at Grasstree, Breeza, Murulla and Dungog. It was from Dungog that he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 27 August 1914. At that time Bourne was married, to Lena May, and they appear to have had a son Harry Francis Bourne.
Embarked from Sydney on HMAT ‘Suffolk’ on 18 October 1914 arriving at Alexandria on 8 December 1914. In January of the new year he was transferred from the 1st Battalion to Headquarters signallers. There are no detailed records, but Bourne fought at Gallipoli and was killed in Action on 20 May 1915.
At first, he was buried in Browns Dip North Cemetery, 500 yards south of Anzac Cove, but his remains were later exhumed and now rest in Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli.
By October Lena May had re-married and her address was recorded as Police Station, Koorawatha.
(NAA B2455-3101598)
Submitted 11 May 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Birth name registered as Henry Cyril Bourne.
Son of Richard and Frances Bourne of Tamworth, NSW.
Husband of Lena May Dennison formerly Bourne of Dowling Street, Dungog, NSW. Father of Harry Francis Bourne
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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