Patrick James BURNS

BURNS, Patrick James

Service Number: 1110
Enlisted: 5 October 1914, Rosehill, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 1st Infantry Battalion
Born: Dunkald, Co Louth, Irleand, 1877
Home Town: Paddington, Woollahra, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 10 August 1915
Cemetery: Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC
Special Memorial C16, Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board
Show Relationships

World War 1 Service

5 Oct 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1110, 1st Infantry Battalion, Rosehill, NSW
22 Dec 1914: Involvement Private, 1110, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914: Embarked Private, 1110, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Patrick James BURNS, (Service Number 1110) was born at Dundalk, South Ireland, on 25 March 1877. He came to the NSWGR&T relatively late, in May 1912, when he began work as a labourer at Rushcutters Bay electric tram depot at the age of 35. The next year his temporary employment was located at Randwick depot and in February 1914 he was made a permanent employee.
He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 5 October.
He was married, to Eleanor, and they did have children. He left Australia through Melbourne aboard HMAT ‘Themistocles’ on 22 December 1914. He reached Gallipoli on 4 May 1915 and joined the 1st Battalion. Ten days later he was wounded and hospitalised, re-joining the Battalion on 22 July. His records show that he was again wounded, between 10 and 11 August, and that his dead body was recovered and buried, but this was amended to ‘killed in action’.
He is buried in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Gallipoli, though with the disclaimer ‘Believed to be buried in this Cemetery’.
(NAA B2455-3172972)

Read more...
Showing 1 of 1 story

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Husband of Mrs Helena Mary Burns, 377 Oxford Street, Paddington, New South Wales