LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman John Parnell BURKE
Service No: 426538
Born: Brisbane QLD, 23 January 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 July 1942
Unit: Brisbane Wireless Telegraph Station QLD
Died: Ground Accident, Nundah QLD, 25 October 1943, Aged 32 Years
Buried: Brisbane (Lutwyche) War Cemetery, Queensland
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Thomas Burke and Blanche May Burke, of Brisbane; husband of Joyce Lillian Burke, of Toowong
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 25 October 1943, Leading Aircraftman Burke, a Motor Cyclist, was killed in a collision with an Army truck in Sandgate Road, Nundah.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/6/308