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Private WILLIAM BURKE

Service Number: 609
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

30th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FROMELLES (PHEASANT WOOD) MILITARY CEMETERY

I. F. 3

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Patrick Henry and Johanna Maria Burke, of "Lyra," Read St., Waverley, New South Wales. Native of Parkes.
  • Personal Inscription "SIGH, WIND IN THE PINE COVER IT OVER WITH SNOW; TERRIBLE THINGS WERE DONE LONG, LONG AGO." D. STEWART
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