Friday 8 June 2007

Corporal Henry McQuarter Bourke

Born 14 March 1886 in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland - son of Martha Bourke, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland - 1915 attestation form provides the following: trade as accountant, single, no current military service, previously served four years with "C" Company, Queen's Own, Presbyterian, height of 5 feet 11.5 inches, chest of 32 inches fully expanded, fair complexion, brown eyes, brown hair.

Joined the 35th Canadian Infantry Battalion in Toronto, Ontario, on 19 April 1915 (number 405724) - taken on the strength of the 38th Battalion in France on 27 or 28 March 1918 - wounded on 3 September 1918 - invalided to England on 26 September 1918.

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