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Herbert James Nixon BRUNKER (1882 - 1917)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
	Herbert James Nixon BRUNKER (1882 - 1917)	James Henry BRUNKER (1855 - 1916)	James Nixon BRUNKER (1832 - 1910)
			Elizabeth Hewiett WEISS (1827 - 1916)
		Fanny Maria FALKINER (1857 - 1932)	John FALKINER (1816 - 1894)	Nathaniel FALKINER
				Penelope Winifred (MINCHEN) PINCH
			Margaret (Margaretta) HOBBS (1819 - 1906)	John HOBBS (1785 - 1847)
				Margaret (Bridged Bridget Biddie )BALLARD (1795 - 1879)

b. 1882 at West Maitland, NSW, Australia

d. 12 Oct 1917 at Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium aged 35

Near Relatives of Herbert James Nixon BRUNKER (1882 - 1917)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	James Nixon BRUNKER	1832		1910		78
Grandmother	Elizabeth Hewiett WEISS	1827		1916		89
Grandfather	John FALKINER	1816	Terryglass, Tipperary, Ireland	02 Jul 1894	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	78
Grandmother	Margaret (Margaretta) HOBBS	abt 1819	Ireland	04 Feb 1906	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	87
Father	James Henry BRUNKER	1855		1916	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	61
Mother	Fanny Maria FALKINER	21 Sep 1857	Maitland, NSW, Australia	17 Apr 1932	Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia	74
Self	Herbert James Nixon BRUNKER	1882	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	12 Oct 1917	Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium	35
Sister	Elsie May BRUNKER	1879	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1956	Chatswood, NSW, Australia	77
Brother	Arthur F BRUNKER	14 Feb 1885	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1935	Ryde, Sydney, NSW, Australia	50
Sister	Irene Weiss BRUNKER	25 Nov 1887	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1947		60
Sister	Bessie Hewlett BRUNKER	1889	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1956	Chatswood, NSW, Australia	67
Brother	Royden Falkiner BRUNKER	1891	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1914	Mungindi, New South Wales, Australia	23
Brother	Keith Eugene BRUNKER	1893	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1969	St Leonards, North Sydney, NSW, Australia	76
Sister	Joyce Marguerite BRUNKER	1894	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	21 Sep 1978	Dubbo, NSW, Australia	84
Sister	Zita Neila Nesbit BRUNKER	1897	West Maitland, NSW, Australia
Uncle	Henry J BRUNKER	1852		1854		2
Uncle	Frederick E BRUNKER	1853		1897	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	44
Aunt	Mary Ann Elizabeth BRUNKER	1857	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1945	Chatswood, NSW, Australia	88
Uncle	William J SHERBON			1939	Chatswood, NSW, Australia
Uncle	George William Nixon BRUNKER	1859	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1936	East Maitland, NSW, Australia	77
Aunt	Edith Alice CARTER	1871		1929		58
Uncle	John Gustaff BRUNKER	1861	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1869	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	8
Uncle	Edwin Arthur BRUNKER	1863	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1929	Sutherland, NSW, Australia	66
Aunt	Edith Sarah Constance FERRIS	1868		1941		73
Uncle	Ernest Septimus BRUNKER	1865	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1919	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	54
Aunt	Lucy Catherine (SEWTON) NEWTON	1873		1940		67
Uncle	Henry H BRUNKER	1867	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1875	Maitland, NSW, Australia	8
Uncle	Edgar A BRUNKER	1869	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1876	Maitland, NSW, Australia	7
Aunt	Infant FALKINER	abt 1842
Uncle	Robert FALKINER	1843	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	27 Jun 1922	Queensland, Australia	79
Aunt	Elizabeth Anne KINGSTON	1846	New South Wales, Australia	1928	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	82
Aunt	Jane FALKINER	10 Apr 1845	Maitland, NSW, Australia	07 Apr 1914	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	68
Uncle	John ROURKE	1838	NSW, Australia	1916	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	78
Aunt	Rebecca FALKINER	05 Sep 1846	Maitland, NSW, Australia	16 Jul 1921	Maitland, NSW, Australia	74
Uncle	William BONE			aft 1921
Aunt	Mary Anne FALKINER	10 May 1848	NSW, Australia	16 Jan 1917	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia	68
Uncle	John Campbell MACDOUGALL	21 Jan 1846	Longbottom, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia	Sep 1889	Balmain, NSW, Australia	43
Aunt	Margaret Hobbs FALKINER	13 Feb 1850	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	14 Aug 1888	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	38
Uncle	John HOWARTH	23 Oct 1849	Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia	06 Mar 1924	Lismore, NSW, Australia	74
Uncle	John Hobbs FALKINER	18 Jan 1851	Maitland, NSW, Australia	12 Dec 1862	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	11
Uncle	Samuel FALKINER	1853	Maitland, NSW, Australia	19 Oct 1854	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1
Uncle	Frederick Nathaniel FALKINER	06 Jul 1855	Maitland, NSW, Australia	28 Sep 1894	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	39
Aunt	Maud Therese BITHREY
Aunt	Female FALKINER	1857	Maitland, NSW, Australia
Uncle	Benjamin Ralph FALKINER	1860	Maitland, NSW, Australia	12 Apr 1896	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	36
Aunt	Frances (Fanny) PILGRIM	1859	Paterson, NSW, Australia	31 Aug 1945	Mayfield, NSW, Australia	86
Aunt	Ellen FALKINER	1862	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1892	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	30
Cousin	Ivan B SHERBON	1893	Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia	1916	Somme, Picardie, France	23
Cousin	Evelyn B SHERBON	1895	Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Nerelle B B SHERBON	1897	Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cousin	George Nixon BRUNKER			1945	West Maitland, NSW, Australia
Cousin	John BRUNKER			1952	East Maitland, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Hewlett Sherbon BRUNKER	1890	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1965	East Maitland, NSW, Australia	75
Cousin	Edgar Ernest BRUNKER	1893	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1940	North Sydney, NSW, Australia	47
Cousin	Ellie Blanche BRUNKER	1896	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1955	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	59
Cousin	Enid Florence BRUNKER	1900	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1951	Petersham, Sydney, NSW, Australia	51
Cousin	Evelyn Sherbon BRUNKER	1906	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1954	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	48
Cousin	Elaine Sylvia BRUNKER	1909	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1966	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	57
Cousin	Bessie Frances FALKINER			1958	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cousin	John (Jack) Percy Kingston FALKINER	13 Nov 1868	Queensland, Australia	12 Apr 1928	Gosford, NSW, Australia	59
Cousin	Mary Ellen FALKINER	04 Dec 1872	Queensland, Australia	1940	Queensland, Australia	68
Cousin	Unnamed FALKINER	20 May 1874	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Robert Davenport FALKINER	1876	Queensland, Australia	11 Nov 1895	Cleveland, Queensland, Australia	19
Cousin	Kingston Sydney FALKINER	1878	Queensland, Australia	1935	Wynnum, Queensland, Australia	57
Cousin	Margaret (Daisy) Hobbs FALKINER	09 Oct 1880	Queensland, Australia	1918	Queensland, Australia	38
Cousin	Emma ROURKE	1865	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1866	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1
Cousin	George ROURKE	02 Aug 1866	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1943	Mosman, NSW, Australia	77
Cousin	Alice ROURKE	1867	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1942	Paterson, NSW, Australia	75
Cousin	Jane ROURKE	1869	Maitland, NSW, Australia	08 Aug 1869	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	0
Cousin	Benjamin ROURKE	20 Jul 1870	Maitland, NSW, Australia	20 Jul 1924	Burwood, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	54
Cousin	Harry (Henry) Marshall ROURKE	03 Jul 1872	Maitland, NSW, Australia	02 Apr 1953	Maitland, NSW, Australia	80
Cousin	John Falkiner ROURKE	1874	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1950	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	76
Cousin	Emma (Emily) ROURKE	1876		26 Sep 1927	Sydney, NSW, Australia	51
Cousin	Unnamed ROURKE	1876	Maitland, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Edith ROURKE	25 Nov 1878	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1956	Chatswood, NSW, Australia	78
Cousin	Margaret ROURKE	1879	Maitland, NSW, Australia	31 May 1957	Chatswood, NSW, Australia	78
Cousin	Jemima May ROURKE	1881	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	08 Aug 1968	Raymond Terrace, NSW, Australia	87
Cousin	Isabel ROURKE	24 Nov 1883	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1968	St Leonards, North Sydney, NSW, Australia	85
Cousin	Arthur G ROURKE	1885	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1885	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	0
Cousin	Ruth Campbell MACDOUGALL
Cousin	Mary Campbell MACDOUGALL	1875	Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Cousin	Robert MACDOUGALL
Cousin	Archibald Falkiner MACDOUGALL	1877	Maitland, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Eric Campbell MACDOUGALL	1885	Duno, Victoria, Australia	1954	Chatswood, NSW, Australia	69
Cousin	Florence Mary HOWARTH	19 Sep 1872	Maitland, NSW, Australia	26 Feb 1920	Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia	47
Cousin	Margaretta H Falkiner HOWARTH	19 Sep 1872	Maitland, NSW, Australia	Aug 1909	Granville, NSW, Australia	36
Cousin	John Shepherd Falkiner HOWARTH	1874	Buninyong, Victoria, Australia	05 May 1915	Gallipoli, Turkey	41
Cousin	Robert Henry St Patrick HOWARTH	17 Mar 1877	Break O'Day, Vic, Australia	13 Aug 1956	Lakemba, NSW, Australia	79
Cousin	Horace Maitland StAlbans HOWARTH	10 Oct 1879	Mooroopna, Vic, Australia	22 Apr 1950	Concord, Sydney, NSW, Australia	70
Cousin	Harold Frederick Benjamin Samuel HOWARTH	17 Oct 1882	Elmore, Victoria, Australia	29 Apr 1932	Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia	49
Cousin	Ruby Sybil Falkiner HOWARTH	1884	Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia
Cousin	Ethel May HOWARTH	13 May 1886	Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia	27 May 1886	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	0
Cousin	Cyril Reginald Falkiner HOWARTH	1887	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	20 Mar 1961	Homebush, NSW, Australia	74
Cousin	Darcy Frederick FALKINER	08 Jan 1891	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1935	Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia	44
Cousin	John Hobbs FALKINER	1892	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	06 Oct 1961	Queensland, Australia	69
Cousin	Margaret Maud FALKINER	27 Jan 1893	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	21 May 1893	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	0
Cousin	Frederick (Fred) FALKINER	1894	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1917	Ypres, Belgium	23
Cousin	Dermott FALKINER	1897	Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Frederick FALKINER	21 Nov 1881	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	20 May 1945	Mayfield, NSW, Australia	63
Cousin	John Hobbs FALKINER	20 May 1883	East Maitland, NSW, Australia	1957	Maitland, NSW, Australia	74
Cousin	Margaret R FALKINER	03 Feb 1885	East Maitland, NSW, Australia	03 Feb 1885	East Maitland, NSW, Australia	0
Cousin	Benjamin R FALKINER	21 Oct 1887	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	13 Nov 1902	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	15
Cousin	George R FALKINER	1889	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1889	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	0
Cousin	Jeanie May FALKINER	1890	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1963	Rockdale, Sydney, NSW, Australia	73
Cousin	Nellie Pilgrim FALKINER	1892	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1980	NSW, Australia	88
Nephew	Noel L BRUNKER	1917	Waverley, New South Wales, Australia
Niece	Joan L BRUNKER	1921	Waratah, Mayfield, NSW, Australia
Brother in Law	Frank Anson BLOOMFIELD	1879	Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia	1949	Chatswood, NSW, Australia	70
Sister in Law	Possibly Mary Barbara (BRUNKER)
Brother in Law	John E MACCULLOCH
Sister in Law	Janet Esma CAMERON
Brother in Law	Malcolm Hector MORRISON	1892	Pyrmont, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1951		59
Brother in Law	Louis Alexander THOMPSON	1896	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Events in Herbert James Nixon BRUNKER (1882 - 1917)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1882		Herbert James Nixon BRUNKER was born	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	Reg No 20874/1882	52
1916	34	Death of father James Henry BRUNKER (aged 61)	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	Note 1	17, 60
12 Oct 1917	35	Herbert James Nixon BRUNKER died	Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium	Note 2	64

Note 1: Reg No 12902/1916 BRUNKER JAMES H JAMES N ELIZABETH H NEWCASTLE Sydney Stock and Station Journal 28th July 1916 Death of Mr. J. H. Brunker. Mr. James Henry Brunker, the well known northern auctioneer, passed away in the Newcastle Hospital on Monday night. He had been in bad health for about three months, and had only returned a few days ago when a relapse necessitated his re moval to the hospital. The deceased was a son of the late Hon. J. N. Brunker, M.P., and a native of East Maitland, 60 years of age. Until about three years ago he was one of the most active and popular residents of Maitand. Edu cated at Newington College, he quali fied for the civil service, but three years' experience in the Government Stamps office made him tired to depart mental work, and he returned to Mait land, to enter the services of Messrs. Brunker and Sparke, auctioneers, etc.. He followed his father into the firm of Brunker. Wolfe, and Badgery. and Brunker and Wolfe, and in 1895 joined his father in the firm of Messrs. J. N. Brunker and Son, which he man- aged up to his departure from Mait- land in 1913. He was the founder of the Farmers' Union sales, which have developed, into the largest pro- duce sales of the State, and in recog nition of his services to them the farmers presented him with an illu- minated address and a valuable presen- tation. He was a licensed auctioneer; for 40 years, and was regarded as one of the best salesmen in the State. One of his most important sales was that of the town allotments of Kurri Kurri, when he sold the famous hotel allot ments tor £1000. The buyer failed to get the license, and paid the £250 forfeit. He took an active part in Parliamentary elections, being one of the principal supporters of the late Mr. John Gillies for many years. He refused to be drawn into the political field himself, although requested to do so on several occasions. He was for two terms an alderman of West Mait land, entering the council on each oc casion at the head of the poll against strong men. He took a keen interest in all .sport; and was president of the old Pearl Cricket Club and of the Hun ter Rugby Union, and patron of the Hunter Rugbv League. He was a supporter of the Hunter Cricket Asso ciation, Maitland Water Brigade, and Volunteer Fire Brigade. He also held office on the hospital commiitee. and on every committee established for pro gress in West Maitland. He was fear less in the expression of his views, but was generous to a fault, and com manded the respect of all with whom he was associated. He is survived by his wife and family of three sons and five daughters, the children being Privates James and Arthur Brunker. who are with the Australian Forces, Mr. Keith Brunker (on the staff at Victoria Barracks), and .Mesdames Bloomfield and .M'Culloch. Misses Bes sie, Joyce, and Zita Brunker. He has three brothers and. one sister — Messrs. George (manager of the East .Maitland branch of the Government Savings Bank), Arthur (of the Customs Depart ment, Sydney), and Ernest Brunker (West- Maitland), and Mrs. Sherbon, wife of Major Sherbon. of Victoria Barracks.

Note 2: Herbert James BRUNKER Regimental number 1076 Religion Church of England Occupation Sheep classer Address Waratah, Newcastle, New South Wales Marital status Widower Age at embarkation 33 Next of kin Father, J H Brunker, Waratah, New South Wales Enlistment date 11 December 1915 Rank on enlistment Private Unit name 35th Battalion, D Company AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/52/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 1 May 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll Private Unit from Nominal Roll 35th Battalion Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917 Place of death or wounding Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium Age at death 35 Place of burial No known grave Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 125 Family/military connections Brother: 1424 Pte Arthur Fred BRUNKER, 3rd Division Salvage Company, returned to Australia, 25 November 1917.

Source References:

52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record

- Reference = (Birth)

- Notes: Date: 1882 Place: West Maitland, NSW, Australia Notes: Reg No 20874/1882

64. Type: Web Page, Abbr: AIF Project, Title: AIF Project, Auth: Australian Defence Forces http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: Herbert James BRUNKER Regimental number 1076 Religion Church of England Occupation Sheep classer Address Waratah, Newcastle, New South Wales Marital status Widower Age at embarkation 33 Next of kin Father, J H Brunker, Waratah, New South Wales Enlistment date 11 December 1915 Rank on enlistment Private Unit name 35th Battalion, D Company AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/52/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 1 May 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll Private Unit from Nominal Roll 35th Battalion Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917 Place of death or wounding Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium Age at death 35 Place of burial No known grave Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 125 Family/military connections Brother: 1424 Pte Arthur Fred BRUNKER, 3rd Division Salvage Company, returned to Australia, 25 November 1917.

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