BURGESS, Christopher Charles
| Service Number: | 2005 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Great Wakering, Essex, England, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Waratah, Waratah/Wynyard, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | County School, England |
| Occupation: | Seaman |
| Died: | Cerebro Spinal Memingitis, France, 29 January 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery Grave IV. F. 48. INSCRIPTION IN THE LOVING MEMORY OF FATHER, MOTHER SISTERS AND BROTHERS , Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Longuenesse, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 2005, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 2005, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His birth was registered in Rochford, Essex-born in Great Wakering.
Births Jun 1888 BURGESS Christopher Charles Rochford 4a 455.
He was the third son of John and Louisa Mary Burgess of Holly Cottage, Great Wakering. Some years before the war he emigrated to Australia for health reasons where he joined the Australian Forces in 1915. He enlisted at Waratah, Tasmania.
He was sent to The Dardenelles where he was wounded in October 1915, returning home for treatment. Upon his recovery he was sent to France, it being known that a splinter of a bomb was still in his head. This may have been the cause of his death of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis in a hospital in France on 29th January 1918. He was 30 years old and is commemorated on the Great Wakering War Memorial.His death was reported in the Southend Standard, 7-2-1918. His younger brother Lance Corporal A.H.Burgess, Royal Fusiliers was in the army for two years and had been wounded in September 1917.
INSCRIPTION on his wargrave reads:
IN THE LOVING MEMORY OF FATHER, MOTHER SISTERS AND BROTHERS
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