Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Additions will be checked before being published on the website and where possible will be forwarded to the person who submitted the original entries. Your contact details will not be forwarded, but they can send a reply via this messaging system.
please scroll down to send a message
255501
Gnr. George Burke
British Army 58th Battery, 35th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Wallasey, Cheshire
George Burke was my grandfather.
He joined up in April 1916 and served on the Somme, at the Ypres Salient, before being sent with the rest of the 7th Division to Italy in autumn 1917.
George was stationed on the Asiago Plateau.
On 15th of June 1918 his battery was in advance of the lines, near Pelly Cross, digging new positions for the artillery. This was the day the Austrians launched a big assault, and the area George was in got overrun.
The men had been sent out with no rifles, but managed to snatch some from another unit nearby.
George was shot and gassed and ended up in an Austrian POW camp.
Vera Brittains brother Edward was killed 3 miles from George Burkes position on 15th of June.