NEWBURN, Francis James
| Service Number: | 1609 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Beddington Corner, United Kingdom, October 1875 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Suicide, Strathfield on his return train journey home., 6 December 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-07. 4. |
| Memorials: | Merewether St. Augustine's Anglican Church Great War Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1609, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1609, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Sydney | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1609, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: '' | |
| 7 May 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1609, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW leg, knee & teeth | |
| 5 Jul 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1609, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 21 Jun 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1609, 2nd Infantry Battalion, MD wounded 3 times on Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
102 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 8th December 1917, Lance Corporal Francis James Newburn, 2nd Battalion, miner from 41 Morgan Street, Merewether, N.S.W., father of two, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 42. ANGLICAN 1-07. 4.
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There was a large attendance, including 50 returned soldiers, and the pall bearers were ex-members of the 2nd Battalion. The coffin was borne in a gun carriage drawn by returned soldiers, and it was enclosed in the Union Jack.
Born at Beddington Corner, United Kingdom about 1875 to William and Elizabeth Newburn; husband of Mary Anne Newburn nee Jones (married 1896, died?), Francis enlisted November 1914, and was 3 times wounded during the Gallipoli Campaign, and was invalided home January 1916. Mr Newburn had unsuccessfully tried to reenlist on several occasions since his return, and sadly, on the 6th December 1917, took his own life at Strathfield on his return train journey home.
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His name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Merewether St. Augustine's Church Roll of Honour, Greta Soldiers' Obelisk and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque submitted October 2016, and was accepted May 2018.
Plaque installed in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, N.S.W., July 2019.
His son Francis James (Reg No-2221) also served 1st A.I.F.
Younger brother Frederick George (Reg No-3171) also served 1st A.I.F.
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