Joseph Martin Burke

Joseph Martin Burke

Died

:

23 February 1941

Age

:

16

Rank

:

Police Messenger

Force

:

Swansea Borough Police

Cause

:

War

Duty Status

:

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Killed alongside a colleague while providing communications between the emergency services during an enemy air raid.

His colleague, Police Messenger William Arthur Miles, was also killed in the same incident.