BURT, Theodore Charles Arthur
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Royal Field Artillery |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 12 June 1893 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed In Action, France, 15 July 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Quarry Cemetery, Montauban IV B 12 |
| Memorials: | Burt Memorial Hall |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Royal Field Artillery |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Aged 23
12th Bty. 35th Bde.
Royal Field Artillery
Son of Louisa Burt, of 197, Adelaide Terrace, Perth, Western Australia, and the late Septimus Burt, K.C. Born Australia.
Sitting just between St George's cathedral and the old deanery, the Burt Memorial Hall is a lasting monument to two sons lost in the Great War.
"In 1917 a prominent lawyer in Perth, Septimus Burt, and his wife Louisa decided they wanted to erect a memorial to their son, Lieutenant Theodore Burt, who was killed in action in France on the 15th of July 1916 at the age of 23," said Richard Offen from Heritage Perth.
"Rather than just a plaque, they wanted to create something useful, and they discussed the idea of building a church hall with the Cathedral authorities."
Design and constructed started in 1917, and tragically, during the planning stages, another of the Burt's three sons was killed in the war. Francis Burt was 32 when he died at Villers-Bretonneux.
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