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Burke, Joseph E.

Title

Burke, Joseph E.

Last Name

Burke

First and Middle Name

Joseph E.

VPI Graduating Class

1913

Service Branch

Army

Unit

Engineers

Rank

Captain

Decorations or Citations

Recieved Croix de Gurre with the Star. Captain Burke won his medal, with its palm and star, through leading a few of his men into a German dugout and taking therefrom all of its inhabitatns, among whom were six officers and nine privates.

Information taken from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 27, page 81.

Collection

VPI Class of 1913

Citation

“Burke, Joseph E.,” VPI in World War I, accessed April 26, 2024, http://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/items/show/358.

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