4th Motor Transport Company
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Henry Sutton Burke (SN 15158) born at Haddon, was a 21 year old motor driver when he enlisted at Broadmeadows on January 8th 1917. He trained as a driver with the 4th Motor Transport Company, before sailing from Melbourne on the Aeneas on October 30th. He reached England just after Christmas in 1917 and joined the Australian Army Service Corps as a driver. In July 1918 he was charged with ‘conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline in that he was smoking a pipe in the presence of an officer’ for which he was admonished. Shortly after this, in early September, he was deployed to France. Six months after the Armistice, while still in England, he faced another charge, alleging that ‘he left the Guard Room without permission’. He was found guilty and severely reprimanded. He returned to Australia in December 1919, disembarking from the Nestor. He died in December 1975 at the age of 78.