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BURKE, Patrick
(Service number 21200)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	2 May 1916	Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Miss Mary Burke (sister), Kerrytown, Temuka
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	16th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company
Date	19 August 1916
Transport	Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Auckland Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	4 October 1917	Age	30
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	VI. C. 5.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial; Ashburton War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Martin and Catherine Burke, of Geraldine

Sources

Cenotaph Oct 2013; CWGC; Notes supplied by Sarah Flint (by email to Tony Rippin, South Canterbury Museum, 23 October 2014)

External Links

Military personnel file

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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