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Constable Patrick Burke

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 402
Age: 33
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: F Division - Cut Knife Hill
Enlistment: May 1, 1875
Death: May 3, 1885 Cut Knife Hill
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Constable Burke was known as “Paddy” Burke and engaged as a Sub. Constable and trumpeter. He took his discharge as “Time Expired” in 1878 and re-engaged in 1879. Constable Burke died in the 1885 Rebellion and was awarded the North West Canada Medal (1885). He had a wife Sarah and six children: Joseph, William, Patrick, James, Mary, and Frederick. He is buried in the Battleford Municipal Cemetery.

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Page 11 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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