Arthur Sowerby BURN

BURN, Arthur Sowerby

Service Number: 714
Enlisted: 10 December 1914
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 10th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Bradford, Yorkshire, 1874
Home Town: Guildford, Swan, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Stockman
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 29 August 1915
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Lone Pine Memorial Panel 10, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
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World War 1 Service

10 Dec 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 714, 10th Light Horse Regiment
19 Feb 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 714, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Itonus embarkation_ship_number: A50 public_note: ''
29 Aug 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 714, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, KIA Hill 60 :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 714 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-08-29

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He is remembered on the Wantage War Memorial at ST PETER AND ST PAUL CHURCH, Church St., Wantage, Vale Of White Horse, Oxfordshire, OX12 8AQ, England.

He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire.

Births Sep 1874   Burn Arthur Sowerby, Bradford, Y. 9b 131

His father was John Burn of 4 Edge Grove, Fairfield, Liverpool, England. He had a sister, Margaret Josephine Gattey who lived at Wantage.