Second Lieutenant Osborne Samuel Burke

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Date published: 24/11/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 25/09/1916
Cemetery: Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, Somme, France
Plot: II. I. 7.
Information: Second Lieutenant Osborne Samuel Burke, R.F.A., was the younger son of Edmund Burke, of “Silverstream” Greystones, Co. Wicklow (chairman of Peek Bros., and Winch, Ltd., London, and of Henry Pattison and Co., Ltd., Dublin). He was educated at St. Columba College, Rathfarnham, and Trinity College, Dublin, and was a member of the D.U.B.C., rowing in the junior eight in 1913-14. At the age of 19, shortly after war was declared, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the R.F.A. He had been at the Front since January last, and in September—during the absence through illness of his Major— he was placed in command of his battery. He was killed instantaneously in action on 25th September. His Colonel pays a high tribute to his ability and fearlessness, and states that his name had gone forward for mention in despatches.