Returned ANZACs,
Territory ANZACs,
First World War, 1914-1918,
Place of birth
Charters Towers (Qld.),
Place of enlistment
Brisbane (Qld.),
Date of enlistment
1916-03-31,
Age
35,
Occupation
Stockman,
Service
Australian Imperial Force,
Unit
1st Machine Gun Battalion,
Rank
Private,
Service number
322,
Next of kin
K. Harvey - Aunt ; Archer Street, Townsville, Qld.,
Date of death
1905-05-13,
Place of death
Queensland,
Biographical notes
Berning was born in Queensland in 1880, the son of Bernard and Bridget (nee) Conroy. He is on the Normanton Electoral Roll from 1908 and Burketown from 1913. From 1930 he lived in Cloncurry. He applied for mining leases on the Northern Territory-Queensland border in 1914. He died at Cloncurry Queensland in 1960.,
History
Berning's unit embarked from Melbourne on board RMS 'Orontes' on 16 August 1916. Berning transferred from 3rd to 21st Machine Gun company. On 15 April 1917 he was captured at Lagnicourt and interned at Limburg. He returned to Australia on 17 March 1919 on HT 'Plassey'.,
Subject
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3075624,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067770/RCDIG1067770--133-.JPG,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1558343/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/24/21/,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1063375--1-.PDF,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1063395--1-.PDF,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59628575,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59628575 ["The 'Mataram's' passengers...", The Register, 10 March 1916: p.7.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1558343/ [Nominal Roll],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1063375--1-.PDF [Red Cross Wounded and Missing File],
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3075624 [Service Record],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/24/21/ [Unit War Diary],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1063395--1-.PDF [Red Cross Wounded and Missing File],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067770/RCDIG1067770--133-.JPG [Embarkation Roll],