Family Search: When Private Stanley Lorne Burke was born on 18 August 1898, in Blenheim Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, Sidney Burk, was 32 and his mother, Mary Jane Somerset, was 28. He married Eva Black on 17 June 1926, in Yarmouth Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada for about 6 years. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as labourer in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1958, at the age of 60, and was buried in Union United Church Cemetery, Union, Central Elgin, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
Brother to Harvey Burke who also served in the 18th Battalion.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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