George Henry BURWELL

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BURWELL, George Henry

Service Number:	369
Enlisted:	30 November 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	35th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Maddison County, Wisconsin, USA, April 1871
Home Town:	Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Painter
Died:	Natural Causes , Donald Street, Nelson Bay, N.S.W, 29 June 1952
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-118. 41.
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World War 1 Service

30 Nov 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 369, 35th Infantry Battalion
1 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 369, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 369, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
3 Apr 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 369, 35th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served in The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

68 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 1st July 1952, Private George Henry Burwell, 35th Battalion, painter from Christo Road, Waratah, New South Wales and Cherry Road, Warners Bay, N.S.W. and Donald Street, Nelson Bay, N.S.W., father of eight, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, believed to be 80 years of age. ANGLICAN 2-118. 41.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133188044 - funeral notice does not state service.

Born at Madison, Wisconsin, United States about 1872 to George and Grace Ada Burwell; husband of Kathleen Leonora Burwell nee Bellenger (married 1897, Sydney, N.S.W., died 1926), George enlisted November 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137968422

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137101854

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133876181

George returned home March 1918 as he was overage and suffering rheumatics, being discharged April 1918.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138158382

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138155436

George’s name has been inscribed on the Waratah-St Philip's Anglican Church Roll of Honour (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133750954, photo).

Mr Burwell had been resting in an unmarked grave, forgotten, so I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite October 2015, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.

http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/…/sear…/index.php…

Younger brother Edwin Hugh (Reg No-2342, 23rd Battalion, born 1879, died 1943) also resting at the cemetery.

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