# Gerrie Burk Documents

One Sunday, early in 2014, I received a phone call from a man in England I had never met before: Richard Corr who was publishing his grandfather's reminiscences about escaping from a german POW camp in WW1 along with my great uncle Gerrie Burk [ Amazon ]. Richard was contacting all the Burk relatives he could find to obtain photos and other papers concerning Gerrie. He then redistributed what he had obtained and here is an index of what was found.

The Burk children [ Click to enlarge !]

- 1903: Gerrie at Flossie's wedding
- 1915: Gerrie in Army
  - Training in England (Salisbury Plain)

- Rennbahn POW Camp (1916)

- Rennbahn Camp Images ( Canadian War Museum )
- Gerrie and his brother Tom at Rennbahn
  - Pvte. L. Hewitson's Photo Album (Canadian War Museum, 3MB)

- 1916: Description of Gerrie's escape, St Andrews College Review, Christmas 1916, pp. 35-40
- 1916: Newspaper account
- 1918: Letter from King after Gerrie's escape

- 1925: Gerrie and his nephew, Phil Vaucher (son of Flossie)
- 1925: Smokey and Phil Vaucher

- Growing up around Gerrie Burk,
  by Connie Sepulchre ( his niece, Tom's daughter )
- 1953: Fun at Uncle Gerrie's

- Mr. Burk Is Most Interested in Their Welfare, M. Kulhberg (Laurentian University), An academic paper detailing Gerrie's fight for his charges during his 30 year tenure as an Indian Agent

Chief Pelletier and Gerrie as he retires (1955)

### Credits

- Photo of Gerrie Burk in uniform: Val Beevor