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        <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
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            <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p class="gb-volume-title"&gt;Information taken from &lt;em&gt;The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography&lt;/em&gt;, Volume 27, page 81.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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