GRAY, Burnett
| Service Number: | 6804 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Geraldton, WA, 21 August 1884 |
| Home Town: | Elwood, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Prince Alfred College Adelaide; Wesley College Melbourne |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | 27 May 1968, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Brind, Wall Q, Niche 241 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 6804, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 May 1917: | Embarked Private, 6804, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne |
Help us honour Burnett Gray's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Cr. Burnett Gray, liberal, who is seeking re-election for St Kilda, was
born at Geraldton, W.A., on August 21, 1884. He was educated at Wesley College. He was first elected to the St Kilda Council in 1914, but resigned to go overseas witii the A.I.F.
On returning he was elected to the council again, while still an inmate of the Caulfield Hospital. He was the first City Councillor to enlist, and the first 'Digger' Mayor of St. Kilda. As founder and first secretary of the Elwood Progress Association, a representative on the Municipal Association, the Metropolitan Main and Arterial Roads Conference and the Metropolitan Gas Conference, Cr. Gray has had unique opportunities of gaining first-hand knowledge of metropolitan needs.
Other offices he has filled or is filling are those of the chairman of the St. Kilda Open Sea Bathing Committee, member of the St Kilda Foreshore Committee, vice-president of the St. Kilda branch R.S.S.I.LA., vice-president of the St. Kilda Memorial Hall Committee, vice-president of the St Kilda Army and Navy Club, honorary life Member of the St Kilda Tradesmen's Club, president of the South Suburban Amateur Billiards Association, vice-president of the Royal Life-Havmg Society, life governor of the Alfred, Children's and
Women's Hospitals and the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, patron of the St. Kilda Dinghy Club, assistant secretary of the Literature Society of Melbourne, vice-president of the Victorian Opera Co, president of the St Kilda life-Saving Club, foundation member of the Open Sea Bathers' League, and West St. Kilda Progress Association, member of the St. Kilda Football and Cricket Clubs, and foundation member of the Australian Journalists' Association and Melbourne Press Club.
Click images to start slideshow.