Private Thomas Burke

Army Number: 10445

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born Leigh, Lancashire and lived at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Son of Thomas and Ellen Burke. He enlisted at Nottingham and served in India. He went to France on 10th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Private Thomas Burke is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St, Mary Magdelene Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.