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Major JOHN EDMUND BURKE

Service Number: 124311
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

389 Bty., 118 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 04 August 1943

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CALCUTTA (BHOWANIPORE) CEMETERY, KOLKATA

Plot L. Grave 75.

India

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edmund Benjamin and Minnie Burke; husband of Charlotte Leydon Burke, of Aberdeen.
  • Personal Inscription IN THIS CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THERE IS A SPOT THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND
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