BURGE, Joseph Alexander
| Service Numbers: | 353, 5561 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lytton, Queensland, Australia, 19 June 1880 |
| Home Town: | Port Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Packer |
| Died: | 1 August 1961, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria Plot: MGC-MET-Comp-ML-No-157 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 353, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 353, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 12 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 353, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 20, notes invalided and returned to Australia after the 5th QIB aboard Aurania arriving Brisbane 5 Jun 1902, discharged 12 Jun 1902. |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5561, 23rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 5 Mar 1919: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5561, 23rd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Served in both the South African (Boer) War and WW1. First service was as a Private S.N. 353, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer war. Second service was as a Private S.N. 5561, 23 Infantry Battalion AIF, WW1.
He enlisted under his full name, Joseph Alexander Burge, for the Boer war, and under Joseph Burge for WW1.
When Joseph Alexander Burge enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his mother Mrs. L. Burge, Lytton. The Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 20, notes his address after discharge as c/- Mrs. Burge, Kennigo St, Spring Hill.
By 1916, when he enlisted again for WW1, he was married and living in Melbourne, Victoria. On his Attestation Form, dated 22 Mar 1916, it is noted that; he was born at Lytton and was 35 years 9 months of age; he was married and working as a Packer; his N.O.K. was his wife Mrs. Alice Burge, Port Melbourne; and he had previously served in South Africa with the Qld Imperial Bushmen.
Joseph Alexander Burge was born on 19 Jun 1880 at Lytton, Qld, a son to Alfred George Burge and Elizabeth Burge (nee Falis). He married Alice Ann Wilhemena Nugent in 1908 in Victoria, and they had 1 child who tragically passed as an infant. When he passed in 1961 he is recorded on the BDM Victoria death register under Joseph Burge.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 500; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 20; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).
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