New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37560

About

Born in New Zealand

26 April 1876

Parents

Mother

Anastasia Bourke

Father

Patrick Bourke

Residence

Hometown

Dunedin

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

New Zealand Government

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 55

18 May 1931

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5520 101/0016565, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “Joseph Bourke (1876-1931)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/58