Participant Info

Given Name

John Thomas

Family Name

Burke

Service Number

5796

Place of Birth

Wymatti NZ

Occupation

Orchardist

Place of Enlistment

Melbourne VIC

Next of Kin

Father, E Peel, Brunswick, Victoria

Address on Enlistment

Picnic Point, Bairnsdale, Victoria

Unit on Embarkation

23rd Battalion, 16th Reinforcement

Age at Embarkation

33

Embarkation Vessel

HMAT A71 Nestor, Melbourne VIC on 2 October 1916

Rank on Enlistment

Private

Unit at Discharge

23rd Battalion

Rank at Death/Discharge

Lance Corporal

Date of Return

5/09/1919

Place of death or wounding

Date of Death

Fate

RTA

Place of burial/memorial

EDITING: ITEMS CHANGED/NOTES

Changed: RTA from 07/07/1919 ü

Link to record

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3168997