AFTER 35 YEARS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 271, 15 December 1939, Page 1

AFTER 35 YEARS

BKOTlims IMbUNtThI) THOUGHT OTHER, HEAD . BIItIvEXHKAI), Eiig., Oet. 20. William Burke, Birkenhead’s one-arm-ed postman, met liij brothe.* Edward to-day for the first tiuio lor d«j years. Although they have bee,a living only 600 miles apart, each thought the other was dead. Blot lor Hit' fact that William keeps canaries and budgerigars they would have gone on thinking that. William Burke .said: “J joined the Army jn 1001. Wight, years later the rest of the family left for Australia. In .1916 I was told Edward had been killed in the war. “Six months ago my photograph appeared in the Post. Office J\lagnzij|js ; in eoinnection with my hohhy of keeping birds, hid ward recognised the picture and wrote to mo.'’ Edward! Burke is also a postman, in Portsmouth. “I believed William was killed in the war, too,” lie said. “When I saw his picture the Post-master-General gave permission for both of us to. take our leave in the first week of- October, so that, >ve could meet.” . ■/: .•*-», 'JL'jk* ■S'' T-.w-uirVi ...