Harry or Henry Burke was b Dublin circa 1895.
He appears in 1911 census living with an uncle and aunt at Wood Quay, Dublin.
He later joins the British Army,11438 Private Henry, in Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
He is captured in 1914, goes to a POW camp, joins Casement's Irish Brigade.
After WW1 he returns to Ireland where Keogh (Sgt Major of Irish Brigade) writes post Irish Independence that
"Harry Burke is still doing a penal servitude term in an English prison on a trumped up charge. In the Black and Tan struggle he rendered valuable service to the Intelligence Department of the Irish Republican Army"Burke himself did not apply for his WW1 medals, but his father applied on his behalf, W F Burke of 2 Meckenburgh Lane, Cumberland St, Dublin
Anybody any ideas as to why Henry Burke was languishing in an English prison. There is no instance recorded of anyone in the Irish Brigade being put in prison, and the "political" prisoners like Dowling and the Connaught Ranger mutineers were released by then.
As far as I was aware there were no "residual" Irish prisoners in English prisons after the release of Dowling in Feb 1924.
I stand open to correction. But why was Henry Burke in an English prison, what was the "trumped up charge"?
