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From: "Lesley Austen" <>
Subject: CHARLES GEORGE BURKE
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:21:30 -0000


> Subject: CHARLES GEORGE BURKE
>
> We have in our possession a war medal belonging to the above
> person. This person is not a member of our family, and how it
> came to be in our possession, no one knows.
>
> I have searched the Commonwealth War Graves site and have found
> that Charles was a private in the Queens Own ( Royal West Kent
> Regiment) and that he died on the 30th November 1917. He was the
> only son of Charles and Sarah Burke, of Lambeth Road, London. I
> would like to return this medal to anyone in the extended family
> of Charles Burke.
>
> If his name appears in your family research, could you please
> contact me. I am not a member of any other area news group, apart
> from the Suffolk news group, so if any of you reading this do
> belong to other groups, could you pass on this e-mail message on.
> Thanking you
>
> Laurie Rands, in sunny Auckland, New Zealand
> frank and laurie <>
>
>
>

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