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{{short description|Irish cricketer and British Army officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = Ireland
| full_name = Anthony Owen Leo Burke
| birth_date = 17 January 1897
| birth_place = [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1942|2|17|1897|1|17}}
| death_place = [[Kyaikto]], [[British Burma]]
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role = Occasional [[wicket-keeper]]
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1926/27
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 7
| bat avg1 = 7.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 7
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/1
| date = 6 November
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/anthony-burke-27084 ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Anthony Owen Leo Burke''' (17 January 1897 – 17 February 1942) was an Irish first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in both the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]].

The son of Peter Joseph Burke and his wife, Mary, he was born in January 1897 in [[British India]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two|last=McCrery|first=Nigel|date=2011|publisher=[[Pen and Sword Books|Pen and Sword]]|location=[[Barnsley]]|page=171|volume=2|isbn=9781526706980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ|language=en}}</ref> Burke fought in the [[First World War]], being commissioned into the [[Royal Dublin Fusiliers]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in March 1917;<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30008|date=3 April 1917|page=3212}}</ref> in April 1918, he was seconded to the [[British Indian Army]] and was granted the temporary rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in September 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31067|date=2 December 1919|page=15013|supp=y}}</ref> Following the war, he gained the full rank of lieutenant in December 1918,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31343|date=16 May 1919|page=6123}}</ref> and spent a short period as an acting [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] whilst commanding a company with the [[2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)|2nd]] and [[7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles|7th Gurkha Rifles]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31957|date=29 June 1920|page=7013}}</ref> Following [[Anglo-Irish Treaty|Irish independence]] in 1922, Burke remained in the British Indian Army, in which he gained the full rank of captain in November 1922.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32846|date=20 July 1923|page=4996}}</ref> Whilst in India, Burke made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the touring [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] at [[Karachi Gymkhana|Karachi]] in October 1926.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13090/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Anthony Burke|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=6 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[Batting order (cricket)#Opening batters|Opening the batting]] once in the match, he was dismissed for 7 runs by [[Bob Wyatt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12124.html|title=Europeans v Marylebone Cricket Club, Marylebone Cricket Club in India and Ceylon 1926/27|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=6 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In November 1932, he was appointed to be an instructor,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33902|date=13 January 1933|page=304}}</ref> with promotion to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] following in November 1935.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34233|date=20 December 1935|page=8199|supp=y}}</ref> By 1936, he was resident in England, where he assisted the [[Cranleigh School]] contingent of the [[Officers' Training Corps]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34286|date=22 May 1936|page=3297|supp=y}}</ref> Burke served with the Gurkha Rifles in the [[Second World War]], being killed in action at [[Kyaikto]] in February 1942 during the [[Japanese invasion of Burma]];<ref name="BOOK"/> he was posthumously [[mentioned in dispatches]] for his gallant and distinguished service throughout the invasion.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35763|date=27 October 1942|page=4691|supp=y}}</ref> Burke's body was never recovered, but he is commemorated on the [[Taukkyan War Cemetery|Rangoon Memorial]].<ref name="BOOK"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=27084}}

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[[Category:1897 births]]
[[Category:1942 deaths]]
[[Category:Royal Dublin Fusiliers officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Royal Gurkha Rifles officers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Irish cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:British sportspeople in British India]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel killed in World War II]]

Anthony Burke (cricketer) - Revision history

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