BURRGRAM, Arthur Henry
| Service Number: | 2858 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 60th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Annandale Public School, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Tram Driver |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 10 May 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Grevillers British Cemetery Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 3. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cooks Hill St John's Honor Roll, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2858, 60th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
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| 3 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2858, 60th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
No railway employment record card can be located for Arthur Henry BURRGRAM, (Service Number 2858). However, entries in the Government Gazette show him as a tram conductor at Ultimo in 1911 and a tram driver at the same depot in 1914. His name is recorded in the 1917 Annual Report as having died on active service.
Burrgram had been born in about October 1886 at Redfern, Sydney. At the time of his enlistment in September 1916 he was unmarried, giving his mother, Caroline, of Cooks Hill, Newcastle, as his next of kin. He did give his calling as ‘tram driver’, so this confirms the relationship with the NSWGR&T. He was assigned to the 60th Battalion and left Australia aboard HMAT ‘Afric’ on 3 November 1916 and arrived in Plymouth on 9 January 1917. After further training in England he proceeded overseas to France on 5 April and joined the battalion on 15 April.
He died at Bullecourt, a month later, blown up by a shell that killed ten other men.
‘He was wounded in the action of the evening of the 10th May by a shell in the spine and neck and was taken back to our Battalion Dressing station then, where he died awaiting the Field Ambulance. He was buried by the Rev E G Muschamp of the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at the Soldiers Cemetery not far from Bapaume.’ (Private R F Payten 2957)
He is buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, Grevillers, Picardie, France.
(NAA B2455-3173884)
Submitted 13 May 2023 by John Oakes