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Sapper WILLIAM BURKE

Service Number: 28637
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Engineers

Date of Death

Died 25 December 1940

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NELSON (WAKAPUAKA) CEMETERY

75.16.

New Zealand

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of William and Mary Rose Burke, of Bristol, England.
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Buried or commemorated at

NELSON (WAKAPUAKA) CEMETERY
Nelson City New Zealand
Number of casualties: 31
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