BURKE, Edward
| Other Name: | Allan, John - aka |
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| Service Number: | 4352 |
| Enlisted: | 3 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Minmi, New South Wales, Australia, 7 October 1889 |
| Home Town: | Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 9 October 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Dochy Farm New British Cemetery Plot VII, Row B, Grave No. 8 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Minmi Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4352, 17th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4352, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4352, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Mimi Cemetery, N.S.W.
On the 9th October 1917, Private Edward Burke, 17th Battalion (Reg No-4352), single labourer from East Street, Rockhampton, Queensland?, was Killed in Action (Shell blast?) on Passchendaele Ridge, Zonnebeke, Ypres, Belgium, age 28. Cause of death not definitive.
Born at Minmi, New South Wales on the 6th October 1889 to John (died tragically 5.11.1903, Wallsend Hospital, N.S.W., age 49, witnessed by Edward, aged 14, and brother Benjamin, age 10, buried at Left Hand Side, Section 23, Plot 074), and Anne or Annie Ethel Burke nee Brennan (died 16.1.1949, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 97, mother of 7, sleeping at Left Hand Side, Section 23, Plot 074), from Church Street, Minmi, New South Wales and10 Mary Street, Merewether, N.S.W. and 30 Caldwell Street, Merewether, N.S.W.
Edward enlisted on the 3rd January 1916 as John Allan, age 26 years 2 months, at the Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A71 Nestor on the 9th April 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 4.6.1916.
Proceeded O/Seas to France from Southampton, England 10.9.1916.
Admitted to hospital 12.12.1916 (not stated), 12.4.1917 (not stated), 11.5.1917 (scabies).
Reported Missing in Action 9.10.1917.
Court of Enquiry 27.4.1918 reported Killed in Action 9.10.1917.
Edward is resting as John Allan at Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, Belgium. Plot VII Row B Grave 8.
Place of Association - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Should be Minmi.
Mr. Burke’s name has been inscribed on the Minmi Roll of Honour. Name possibly inscribed on a Queensland War Memorial or Roll of Honour if his place of address is correct.
Younger brother LCpl Ben Byrne (M.I.D., born 14.8.1893, Minmi, New South Wales, single miner from Church Street, Minmi, New South Wales, enlisted 7.1.1916, age 22 years 4 months, Newcastle, N.S.W., 34th Battalion, Reg No-1079, unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916, appointed Lance Corporal 19.1.1917, wounded in action - 7.6.1917 (gas poisoning, Battle of Messines), Mention in Despatches 5.6.1917, Killed in Action 12.10.1917, age 24 Years 2 Months, 1st Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, resting at Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, Belgium. Plot VIII Row B Grave 6), memorialised same location - Left Hand Side, Section 23, Plot 074.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Burke gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of brothers Edward and Ben for God, King & Country. Left Hand Side, Section 23, Plot 074.
Memorial inscription should read Belgium.
Many thanks to Jeanette Park and Ros Cheetham for the notification.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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