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BURKE, John Patrick
(Service number 60901)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	04/02/1887	Place of Birth	Geraldine

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Belfield, Orari
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married. Two children
Next of Kin	Mrs Deborah BURKE (wife), Belfield, Orari, South Canterbury
Religion	Mahomedan
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	24 February 1948	Age	61 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Geraldine Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Patrick Burke was the elder son of Patrick and Catherine (née Allman) Burke. He married Deborah Kelliher on 1 January 1916. Two children were born before his call up in 1917 - Margaret on 24 May 1916 at Geraldine and Monica on 5 August 1917 at Geraldine. A son, John Edmond, was born in 1919. John was next-of-kin for his brother, Edmund, who left for the front in September 1916..

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [12 September 2019]; Geraldine Cemetery headstone transcription (Cemetery records) [12 September 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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