FURZER, Beaumont Cornelius
| Service Number: | 7054 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 March 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Subiaco, Nedlands, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Accidentally Killed (Workplace Accident), Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, 21 March 1944 |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Mar 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7054, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Jul 1917: | Involvement Private, 7054, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Albany embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jul 1917: | Embarked Private, 7054, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Albany | |
| 15 Sep 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7054, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), embarked England for RTA |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Beaumont Cornelius Furzer (Service No:7054) enlisted in the AIF on 8 March 1917, and was attached to 28th Infantry Battalion on 24 July 1917 when he embarked with his Unit from Albany, Western Australia on board HMAT A16 Port Melbourne. Private Furzer was WiA in 1918, and was attached to 51st Infantry Battalion on 15 September 1918 when he embarked from England for the RTA and Discharge.
Monty was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1876, youngest of eight children of John Bedgood Furzer (b1841 in Somerset, England) and Amelia Lacey (b1834 in Somerset, England). John (a Weaver) and Amelia married in Crewkwene, Somerset in 1859, and immigrated in 1861, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Atlanta. John and Amelia settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and John was a Grocer when he died in 1899. Amelia died in 1904.
Monty was a Grocer in Perth in 1901 when he married his first wife Mary Theresa Burke (b1880 in Adelaide, South Australia). Monty and Mary settled in Subiaco, where they raised their family and from 1906 Monty worked for the WAGR as a Railway Porter. Mary died in 1918 while Monty was on Active Service. In 1919 he was successful in applying for passage to Australia for his fiancee and her three children - Florence arrived in Fremantle on board the Balmoral Castle. Monty remarried in 1919 to Florence Annie Green (nee Norris; b1886 in Somerset, England). Monty and Florence settled in Subiaco, where they raised their family and Monty worked for WAGR as a Railway Porter until his death in 1944. Florence died in 1946.
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