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Leading Airman JOSEPH PATRICK BOURKE

Service Number: FX/88475
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Goshawk.

Date of Death

Died 24 February 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT OF SPAIN (ST. JAMES) MILITARY CEMETERY

Western Portion. Grave 46.

Trinidad and Tobago

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Patrick Joseph and Mary Agnes Bourke, of Pantasaph, Clwyd. His brother Peter James, also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription "TO WHOM THOU HAST SAID, COME, GRANT HIM THY PEACE" EVER MOURNED BY HIS FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT OF SPAIN (ST. JAMES) MILITARY CEMETERY
Trinidad and Tobago
Number of casualties: 109
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