Cliff Burge

Cliff Burge
Personal information
Full name Clifford Charles Burge
Date of birth (1892-04-27)27 April 1892
Place of birth Rushworth, Victoria
Date of death 14 August 1918(1918-08-14) (aged 26)
Place of death Villers-Bretonneux, France
Original team(s) Elsternwick Juniors
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1914 Melbourne 5 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1914.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Clifford Charles "Cliff" Burge (27 April 1892 – 14 August 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. He was killed in action in World War I in France.[1]

Family

The son of Charles Abraham Burge (1863-1939) and Emily Jane Burge, née Morris (1861-1947).[2] He had two brothers, Trevor Robert William Burge (1895-1953),[3] and Maxwell Lewis Burge (1899-1976), and two sisters, Emily Blanche Burge (1894-1895) and Emily May Burge (1897-1989).

Education

He completed his education at Melbourne High School, where he was a member of the school's First XVIII.[4]

Football

He played five senior games for Melbourne in 1914. He was already in the army by the start of the 1915 season.

First AIF

He enlisted in the First AIF in February 1915.[5][6]

Having fought at Gallipoli, and having survived a German gas attack in June 1918,[7] he was killed in action, aged 23, during fighting at Villers-Bretonneux, France, just three months before the end of hostilities.[8][9][10]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hobbs, Greg (1984). 125 yrs of the Melbourne Demons. Progress Press Group. p. 160. ISBN 0-9590694-0-2.
  2. ↑ Marriage: Burge—Morris, The McIvor Times and Rodney Advertiser, (Thursday, 30 October 1890), p.2.; Deaths: Burge, The Argus, (Friday, 14 July 1939), p12.; Deaths: Burge, The Argus, (Wednesday, 22 January 1947), p.2.
  3. ↑ World War I Service Record: Robert William Burge (221), National Archives of Australia.
  4. ↑ Cliff Burge, Demonwicki.
  5. ↑ World War I Service Record: Second Lieutenant Clifford Charles Burge (36), National Archives of Australia.
  6. ↑ Amateur, "Football Gossip", The (Melbourne) Leader, (Saturday, 25 September 1915), p.20.
  7. ↑ (Casualty List No.412) Roll of Honor: Victorian List: Wounded ("Lieut. C. C. Burge, Elsternwick (gas)"), The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 29 June 1918), p.32.
  8. ↑ The 429th Casualty List: Victorian Names: Killed in Action ("Lieut. C. C. Burge, Elsternwick"), The Mildura Cultivator, (Saturday, 14 December 1918), p.2.
  9. ↑ Died on Service: Burge, The Argus, (Tuesday, 27 August 1918), p.1; Death: On Active Service: Burge, The McIvor Times and Rodney Advertiser, (Thursday, 12 September 1918), p.2.
  10. ↑ Contents of letter to Burge's parents from Second Lieutenant Frank Steadman Hurrey: The Riponshire Advocate, (Saturday, 14 September 1918), p.3.

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