Regimental number | 680 |
Place of birth | Broken Hill New South Wales |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 23rd Battalion |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Name given on RoH circular as Francis Roy BURDON, 23rd Bn. Enlisted 27 February 1915. Taken on strength, 23rd Bn, 9 March 1915. Wounded at Gallipoli, 7 September 1915. |
Fate | DOD; secondary fate: DOI |
Place of death or wounding | At sea |
Date of death | |
Age at death | 23 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 65), Gallipoli, Turkey The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey. The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank. The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 98 |
Family/military connections | Brother: 1884 Pte Leonard Herbert James BURDON, MM, 46th Bn, d. France, 25 February 1919. |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |