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Edward Burke

Private

Service No. 3812

Age 32

Died on 30 July 1917

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Ann Burke of 47, Brook St., Derby.

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Henry Harrison

Edward, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Edward, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalion...

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