Thomas Burke
Born: October 27, 1883 at Pensacola, Florida
Home Town: New York
Medal of Honor
Peacetime Awards
U.S. Navy
War Department, General Orders No. 77, August 1, 1866
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Seaman of the U.S.S. De Soto Thomas Burke, United States Navy, for heroic conduct, with two comrades, in rescuing from drowning James Rose and John Russell, seamen, of the U.S.S. WINOOSKI, off Eastport, Maine, 10 May 1866.