BURKE, Patrick Oliver
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Army Medical Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
7265212
P.O.W. number:
50188
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Sunday, May 23, 1920
Birthplace:
Cork
Patrick Oliver Burke, a Hairdresser from Youghal, County Cork, enlisted 5 May 1939. Private Burke, R.A.M.C. attached No.1 Commando, was reported missing 6 December 1942 during operations at Bizerte, Tunisia, later confirmed wounded 3 December 1942 and a prisoner of war. Post war member of the Commando Association (Leicester) with whom they lost contact.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/56 and WO417/93.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and WO392/21.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/51/13.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/48/2.
Commando Association Lost Legion List 2.
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