Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

My grandfather he was always my hero in life. He made me laugh and always kept a smile on my face from his amazing zest for life his massive sense of humour.

My grandfather lived to the good old age of 80 years old he married my beautiful grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Burke when he was recuperating in a Darwin hospital from a war injury she was from Scotland came out to Australia to be a nurse they started courting and a few months later became married soon after three girls and two boys were born.

Jeanette Burke
Neville Burke
Elizabeth Burke
Robert Burke (deceased)
Margaret Burke

I was lucky to spend fifteen years of my life with him before he succumbed to heart disease back in 1998.

Many of my memories were of my grandfathers war stories he was mostly in trouble and sent to peel potato's in the kitchen. He was a boxer too in the army they called him slogger burke. He also once threw the British ships tea chest into the sea at port and was made to retrieve it.

I miss my grandfather he was a hero, a friend, a story teller, a warrior, a kind gentle man.