Burke, Eric Keast
Person: id 2560
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USyd
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World War I
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Family name
Burke
Given name(s)
Eric Keast
Initials
E.K.
Gender
Male
Early education
Tertiary education
Start date
1915
Combined start dates
1918
Military service
Survived
Survived WWI
Occupations
Burke E.K. : Associate Editor 1920 - Australian Photo-Review @ Sydney [ NSW Australia ]Burke E.K. : Australian Chairman 1938 - Kodak (Australasia) @ Sydney [ NSW Australia ]Burke E.K. : Editor 1946 - 1956 Australian Photo-ReviewBurke E.K. : Advertising Manager 1956 - Kodak (Australasia) @ Sydney [ NSW Australia ]Burke E.K. : Consultant - National Library of AustraliaBurke E.K. : Editor & Art Director 1961 - 1969 Australian Popular Photography
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B.Ec. : Sapper, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Enlisting 19th February, 1917, and sailing 19th December, arrived at Unit H.Q., Baghdad, 29th March, 1918. Allotted to No. 9 Waggon Station, Kermanshah and Hamadan, N.W. Persia. Station moved on September 14th with Sweet''s Column to Zingan, later returning to Baghdad via Siah Dehan and the Kasvin Road, arriving 21st November. On demobilisation of the Squadron, transferred to D Troop which remained in Mesopotamia until n th November, 1919, owing to frontier operations in Kurdistan (Mosul area), returning in January, 1920. Edited Commonwealth Unit History for the various Australian units serving in Mesopotamia and Persia under the title With Horse and Morse (published by subscription). Early education at Sydney Church of England Grammar School.
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Publications
'With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia' (1927), Achievement' (1932) A photographic survey of Sydney Harbour Bridge, "Gold & Silver'(1973).
Visible notes
Burke exhibited his photographic work in Australia, Europe, London and the United States of America, and was elected an associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain in 1938 for a portfolio of male figure studies In 1953 he found Otto Holtermann's collection of Beaufoy Merlin's and Charles Bayliss's glass plates. He lectured prepared exhibitions and produced a TV seres for the ABC. From ADB entry
ADB Entry ID
9628
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