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Private JOHN BURKE

Service Number: 6488
Regiment & Unit/Ship

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

Date of Death

Died 14 December 1914

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. C. 5A.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1st Life Guards
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Burke, of Killiney, Co. Dublin; husband of Mrs. E. Burke, of 4, Reas Cottages, Islandbridge, Dublin.
  • Personal Inscription SWEET JESUS REST HIS SOUL R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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