Family Search: When Private Harvey Milton Burke was born on 1 October 1892, in Harwich, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Sidney Burk, was 26 and his mother, Mary Jane Somerset, was 22. He married Marie Lillie Violet Flynn on 2 March 1917, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada, for about 10 years and in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as a lineman in Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 28 October 1951, at the age of 59, and was buried in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
Brother to Stanley Lorne Burke, who also served in the 18th Battalion.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
Leave a comment