BOURKE, Thomas
| Service Number: | 3335 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Dalby Queensland, Australia , 30 April 1891 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 4 August 1916, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Dalby 'The Fallen' Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3335, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 12 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3335, 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3335, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Thomas Bourke was the youngest son of William and Margaret Bourke who spent much of their life at Dalby, Queensland. Both parents had passed away many years before the war, when Thomas was in his teens. He was in fact the youngest of 13 children. Six of Thomas’s brothers served overseas in the AIF, and an elder brother, 3770 Private Patrick Bourke 52nd Battalion AIF was killed in action exactly one month after Thomas on 4 September 1916, aged 39.
Although Thomas enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia, his sister Mary Agnes Smith of Gympie, Queensland was the nearest of kin that Base Records dealt with in regards to Thomas and Patrick Bourke.
Thomas was reported as missing at Pozieres on 4 August 1916 and like his brother Patrick has no known grave.
His other four brothers who served all returned to Australia, though one was three times badly wounded.
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