Herman Edward Burke

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 21st Armd. Regt.
• Fact: Army
• Fact: C/58783
• Fact: Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C.
• Fact: Guardsman
• Occupation: 1941; Truck driver
• Enlisted: 15 Jan 1941, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 15 Jan 1941, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Address:
  82 Murray Street
• Obittuary: Aft 14 Aug 1944, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Obittuary: 20 Sep 1944, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Son of Eddie and Blanche Burke of Thurso, Quebec. Husband of Edna Burke of Thurso.

Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .

Obittuary:
The Ottawa Journal

Obittuary:
The Ottawa Citizen

Buried:
Grave Reference: XVIII. F. 15.

This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.