BUSUTTIN, Basil Charles
Service Number: | 3260 |
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Enlisted: | 7 May 1917, Townsville, Qld. |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 42nd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Kalamia, Ayr, Queensland, Australia, 25 October 1894 |
Home Town: | Proserpine, Whitsunday, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | 5 August 1970, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Proserpine General Cemetery, Qld C2 GRAVE 497 |
Memorials: |
Biography contributed by Lyn Burke
Son of Giuseppe Giovani and Sarah Stanley BUSUTTIN nee WARD, Proserpine, Bowen Line, Queensland
Basil married Alberta Foxlee in Proserpine on the 20.8.1919, and they had 4 sons, Stan, Basil, Bert and Bill (who was a priest at St Catherine’s Catholic Church of Proserpine). He worked at a variety of occupations, carrying co., the first Shell agency, taxi, fish shop, cane farm and in 1950 he worked for the Post Office until 1959, when he retired. Basil Busuttin passed away on the 5.8.1970 at the age of 75 years. Buried in Proserpine Old Cemetery, section C2 GRAVE 497