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Sjt. John Burke
Australian Infantry Force 34th Battalion
from:New South Wales, Australia
(d.21st Jul 1917)
John Burke was 43 years old when he died on 21st July 1917 whilst serving with 34th Battalion Australian Infantry Force. He was the son of Mary Burke and the late John Burke of Jarrow and husband of Annie Burke of "Braidwood" Napper Street, Coogee, New South Wales Australia. Native of Jarrow were he worked in the Palmer Shipyard as a Horse keeper, he had been born in Ireland. John Burke's widowed mother Mary Burke is living with her daughter and son in law Bridget and Thomas Welsh and family at 63 Albion Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
John is buried in Trois Arbres Cemetery Steenwerk.
