BISHOP, George Alexandra
| Service Number: | 5054 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Glasgow, Scotland, 5 May 1874 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Horse Driver (Tramways) |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, 8 August 1956, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/237396115/george-alexander-bishop |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5054, 2nd Field Company Engineers | |
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| 17 Dec 1915: | Involvement Driver, 5054, 2nd Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Dec 1915: | Embarked Driver, 5054, 2nd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 4 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5054, 12th Field Company Engineers, Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 29 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5054, 12th Field Company Engineers, France - hip | |
| 5 Feb 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 5054, 12th Field Company Engineers, Burns to hands and face | |
| 21 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5054, 12th Field Company Engineers | |
| 27 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5054, 12th Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
T/Corporal George Alexander Bishop (Service No:5054) enlisted in the AIF on 11 November 1915, and was a Private attached to 2nd Field Coy Engineers on 17 December 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for the Middle East on board HMAT A35 Berrima. On 4 June 1916, Private Bishop embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles and service on the Western Front with 12th Field Coy Engineers. Private Bishop was WiA in France on two occasions - on 29 September 1917 (hip) and 5 February 1918 (burns to face and hands), and was a T/Corporal on 21 March 1919 when he embarked from Devonport for Melbourne on board HT Kaledonian Castle. T/Corporal Bishop was attached to 12th Field Coy Engineers at Discharge on 27 August 1919.
George was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1874, fifth of six children of Cornelius Bishop (b1844 in Worcestershire, England) and Mary Ellen Badger (b1843 in Worcestershire, England). Cornelius (a Glass Blower) and Mary married in 1864 in Staffordshire, and lived in Hertfordshire, Staffordshire and Glasgow where Corneliua worked as a Glass Blower and Manager of a Bottle Factory. Cornelius and Mary immigrated in 1874, arriving in Port Adelaide with their children on board the Murray. Cornelius worked as a Glass Maker/Bottle Manufactorer - in Adelaide and Sydney - before settling in Melbourne in the late 1890s. Mary died in 1887, and Cornelius remarried.
George worked as a Horse Driver for the Tramways in Melbourne, and in 1903 in Melbourne married Jane Prosser (b1879 in Mooroopna, Victoria) - Jane was working in Melbourne as a Housekeeper. George and Jane settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and George worked as a Driver for the Tramways until 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge from the Army, George's occupation was listed in the Electoral Rolls as 'Returned Soldier' until his death at the Repatriation Hospital in 1956. Jane died in 1973.
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