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Trooper RICHARD GRENVILLE BURKE

Service Number: 321803
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

1st Lothians and Border Horse

Date of Death

Died 24 December 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY

2. D. 6.

Poland

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard Burke and of Madge Burke, of Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription GOD GENTLY KISSED HIM AND AS HE SLEPT, SOFTLY WHISPERED, PEACE BE THINE
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Buried or commemorated at

KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
Poland
Number of casualties: 529
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