English: Studio portrait of 36 Staff Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Clifford Charles Burge, Army Pay Corps (later 24th Battalion), of Elsternwick, Victoria. A public servant prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Runic (A54) on 25 February 1915. On 14 August 1918, he was killed in action, by a shell in The Quarry, France, aged 26, while moving forward to the new front line with C Company. The Unit Diary records that Lieut Burge "was one of the most promising and popular officers with the Battalion & a fine sportsman, a good soldier and comrade". He is buried in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, France.
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