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BURGESS, John Royston McDonell
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 443673 |
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Enlisted: | 20 November 1943 |
Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
Last Unit: | 19 Replenishing Centre |
Born: | Warrawee, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 31 October 1925 |
Home Town: | Turramurra, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales |
Schooling: | North Sydney Intermediate High & Sydney Technical College |
Occupation: | Farm Hand |
Died: | Illness, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 26 November 1945, aged 20 years |
Cemetery: |
Townsville War Cemetery, Queensland, Australia E .B .10 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Municipal Council of Sydney WW2 Supreme Sacrifice Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Son of James Gibson Burgess and Ena May Burgess of Turramurra, NSW
Leading Aircraftman John Royston McDonell Burgess 443673 was attached to Number 19 Replenishment Centre at Talmoi where he fell ill and subsequently died in Townsville (on 13 July 1945 he was in Richmond District Hospital, New South Wales)
Biography contributed
John Royston McDonell BURGESS was born in Warrawee in Sydney on 31st October, 1925
His parents were James Gibson BURGESS & Barbara Ena May McDONELL who married in Sydney in 1916