Burge, Joseph (5561)
Place of Birth: Lytton, QLD
Age: 35 years 9 months
Enlistment Details: Wednesday, 22 March 1916 – Melbourne, VIC
Service Number: 5561 view online service record
Address:
108 Albert Street
Port Melbourne, VIC
Next of Kin:
Alice Burge (wife)
108 Albert Street
Port Melbourne, VIC
Embarkation Details:
Date: Monday, 25 September 1916
Ship: HMAT Shropshire A9
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 23rd Infantry Battalion – 15th Reinforcements
Fate:
RTA: Wednesday, 5 March 1919
Discharged: Monday, 2 June 1919
Prisoner of War (POW)
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Brian Membrey
Boer War (1898-1902) service : One year and 96 days in South Africa during Boer War, initially 80 Trooper (later Lieutenant),1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, seconded to Transvaal Mounted & Foot Police 19.6.1900, 16.1.1901 discharged 23.1.1901. Later re-enlisted (as Joseph Alexander BURGE), 353, Private, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, NOK in Lytton, Queensland, noted as left behind in hospital at Charlestown with enteric when 5 QIB returned to Australia