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The Australian Boer War Memorial
Anzac Parade Canberra
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| Sergeant Michael Burke |
Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Michael Joseph Burke (also spelt Bourke)
Ancestor's date of birth: 04/05/1861
Ancestor's date of death: 25/04/1943
Cause of Death: unknown, died in South Africa.
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Farmer at Appin, near Campbelltown NSW, serving in the militia.
Service Number: 88 (NSWMR), 1732 (ACH)
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney
Unit: A Squadron 1st NSW Mounted Rifles and 3rd Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse
Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: <=1899?
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service
Murray Page: 33 and 177
Contingent: First New South Wales and Second Australian Commonwealth
Ship: Aberdeen, Date of Sailing: 03/11/1899
Ship: Manhattan, Date of Sailing: 01/04/1902
Memorial details: Buried in South Africa
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill and South Africa 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.
Reasons to go and fight: A serving soldier.
Details of service in war: From December 1899 with 1NSWMR in north-west Cape Colony, Free State, and Transvaal. He was repatriated in 12 July 1900 with enteric fever (typhoid) before he signed up again in 1902. May 1902 with the 3ACH. Arrived in Durban on 30 April and moved to camp at Kitchener's Kop near Newcastle, Natal. Unit was involved in escorting Boer delegates to the peace conference location south of Johannesburg.
Service and life after the Boer War: He remained in South Africa after the Boer War and became a farmer at Benoni, near Johannesburg. Grandchildren live in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Stephen John Burns, Wahroonga NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: great grand nephew
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