BURDEN, Ernest Alfred

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Notes
  5. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
09/09/1914
Date of Discharge
02/10/1916
Place of Enlistment
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Catford, Kent, England
Address (at enlistment)
Torrensville, South Australia (previously Duntroon ACT)
Occupation
Baker
Next of Kin
Harriett Burden (wife), Torrensville, South Australia

Unit and Rank Details

Service Number
20
Final Rank
Private
Final Unit
HQ Staff 3 Brigade AIF

Notes

Ernest Burden was born in Catford, Kent in England in 1884. He had spent 12 years with the 4th Hussars and was a baker by trade. He arrived in Canberra in 1913 and was working as a groom at the Royal Military College, Duntroon when he enlisted 9 September 1914. He served on Gallipoli with the 3rd Brigade's Headquarter staff under Brigadier Sinclair-Maclagan. He was treated on Malta for lumbago and myalgia in October 1915 and then in Alexandria suffering with 'hysteria' after the evacuation from Gallipoli. He was invalided to Australia in April 1916 and discharged on 2 October 1916 with neurasthenia (generally known as shell shock). After the war he lived in Glenelg, South Australia. He died in Adelaide in 1972.

Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 138 pounds, chest 33-36 inches, dark complexion, hazel eyes, dark brown hair, Church of England.

Sources

Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000.
Queanbeyan Age - 28 July 1914
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)

South Australia Births, Deaths & Marriages - www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html

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