John Joseph BOURKE

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Service Number:	48
Enlisted:	17 August 1914
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd Machine Gun Company
Born:	Edi via Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Wangaratta, Wangaratta, Victoria
Schooling:	Edi State School Victoria
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Killed in Action, Passchendaele, 20 September 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial
Memorials:

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 48, 5th Infantry Battalion
21 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 48, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: ''
30 Apr 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 48, 5th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Bullet wound head and left hand (serious) - evac to Egypt
19 Jun 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 48, 5th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Returned to Duty
13 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Machine Gun Company
13 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Machine Gun Company
23 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 48, 2nd Machine Gun Company, Battle for Pozières , Recommended (not awarded) DCM
7 Aug 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 2nd Machine Gun Company
25 Nov 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2nd Machine Gun Company
31 Jan 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 21st Machine Gun Company
20 Sep 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 48, 2nd Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres

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John Joseph BOURKE was born in Edi via Wangaratta in Victoria in 1892

His parents were Thomas BOURKE & Catherine FORTUNE

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