John Burke
Rank: Private
Service No: 41723
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 11/04/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots (8th Bn.)
Memorial: Loos Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Grandson of Mrs. Deans, 51 New Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Brother Dominick Burke and Sister Elizabeth Callaghan.
1901 census information:
Address: 13 Crawford Street, Rutherglen.
Father: Bernard (47) coal miner, hewer, born about 1854 in Rutherglen.
Mother: Mary (39) born about 1862 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Dormick (10) born about 1891 in Rutherglen.
Brother: James (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Elizabeth (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Self: John (4) born about 1897 in Rutherglen.
1911 Census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Bernard 56, Dominic 20, Elizabeth 17 and John 14 also living with the family is John’s maternal grandmother Elizabeth Deans 67.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. J. Burke, Rutherglen. Mrs Deans, 51 New Street, Rutherglen, has received official intimation that her grandson, Private John Burke, Royal Scots, was killed on April 11. He was 21 years of age, and prior to enlistment was employed at Messrs., Dixon’s Colliery, Blantyre.