Richard BURKETT

BURKETT, Richard

Service Number: 6007
Enlisted: 16 March 1916, Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 11th Infantry Battalion
Born: Strathalbyn, South Australia, January 1885
Home Town: Narrogin, Narrogin, Western Australia
Schooling: State School, Strathalbyn, and Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation: Horse driver
Died: Killed in Action, France - Bullecourt II, 6 May 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kent Town Prince Alfred College 'Nobly Striving, Nobly Fell' Roll of Honour, Maylands War Memorial, Narrogin War Memorial, Nomans Lake Memorial Board, Nomans Lake Roll of Honour WWI, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Richard and Catherine BURKETT, 41 Tenth Avenue, Maylands, Western Australia