Son of Edward and Mary Charlotte (nee Lange) Bage.
He attended Melbourne Grammar School 1900-1904; matriculated at 14 in 1902. Attended Trinity College while studying Civil Engineering. He attained First class Honours in Chemistry and Exhibition in Surveying in 1905. Second Lieutenant in Corps of Australian Engineers, 1909. Joined Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, as Astronomer, Assistant Magnetician and Recorder of Tides. One of six volunteers for the relief party left in the Antarctic for a second winter, when Mawson and his companions had failed to return to winter quarters at the appointed time. Led a party on a perilous journey of 600 miles, man-hauling their sledge over rough blizzard-swept ice. Awarded the King's Polar Medal in 1915. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on August 25, 1914, as a Captain, second in command of the 3rd Field Company of Engineers. He embarked for active service abroad on 22 September 1914 per HMAT "Geelong" (A2). He took part in the Landing at Gallipoli. While marking out a trench line on the forward slope of Silt Spur, southern Anzac sector on May 7, 1915, he was fatally wounded when he and his companions came under fire from five Turkish machine guns.
3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers
He attended Melbourne Grammar School 1900-1904; matriculated at 14 in 1902. Attended Trinity College while studying Civil Engineering. He attained First class Honours in Chemistry and Exhibition in Surveying in 1905. Second Lieutenant in Corps of Australian Engineers, 1909. Joined Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, as Astronomer, Assistant Magnetician and Recorder of Tides. One of six volunteers for the relief party left in the Antarctic for a second winter, when Mawson and his companions had failed to return to winter quarters at the appointed time. Led a party on a perilous journey of 600 miles, man-hauling their sledge over rough blizzard-swept ice. Awarded the King's Polar Medal in 1915. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on August 25, 1914, as a Captain, second in command of the 3rd Field Company of Engineers. He embarked for active service abroad on 22 September 1914 per HMAT "Geelong" (A2). He took part in the Landing at Gallipoli. While marking out a trench line on the forward slope of Silt Spur, southern Anzac sector on May 7, 1915, he was fatally wounded when he and his companions came under fire from five Turkish machine guns.
3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers
Son of Edward and Mary Charlotte (nee Lange) Bage.
He attended Melbourne Grammar School 1900-1904; matriculated at 14 in 1902. Attended Trinity College while studying Civil Engineering. He attained First class Honours in Chemistry and Exhibition in Surveying in 1905. Second Lieutenant in Corps of Australian Engineers, 1909. Joined Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, as Astronomer, Assistant Magnetician and Recorder of Tides. One of six volunteers for the relief party left in the Antarctic for a second winter, when Mawson and his companions had failed to return to winter quarters at the appointed time. Led a party on a perilous journey of 600 miles, man-hauling their sledge over rough blizzard-swept ice. Awarded the King's Polar Medal in 1915. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on August 25, 1914, as a Captain, second in command of the 3rd Field Company of Engineers. He embarked for active service abroad on 22 September 1914 per HMAT "Geelong" (A2). He took part in the Landing at Gallipoli. While marking out a trench line on the forward slope of Silt Spur, southern Anzac sector on May 7, 1915, he was fatally wounded when he and his companions came under fire from five Turkish machine guns.
3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers
He attended Melbourne Grammar School 1900-1904; matriculated at 14 in 1902. Attended Trinity College while studying Civil Engineering. He attained First class Honours in Chemistry and Exhibition in Surveying in 1905. Second Lieutenant in Corps of Australian Engineers, 1909. Joined Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, as Astronomer, Assistant Magnetician and Recorder of Tides. One of six volunteers for the relief party left in the Antarctic for a second winter, when Mawson and his companions had failed to return to winter quarters at the appointed time. Led a party on a perilous journey of 600 miles, man-hauling their sledge over rough blizzard-swept ice. Awarded the King's Polar Medal in 1915. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on August 25, 1914, as a Captain, second in command of the 3rd Field Company of Engineers. He embarked for active service abroad on 22 September 1914 per HMAT "Geelong" (A2). He took part in the Landing at Gallipoli. While marking out a trench line on the forward slope of Silt Spur, southern Anzac sector on May 7, 1915, he was fatally wounded when he and his companions came under fire from five Turkish machine guns.
3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers
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