The JCCC place an advertisement in the Duplin People newspaper seeking the long-lost relatives of Edmund Seymour Burke who was born in Dublin. The story was picked up by a popular radio show host and Maureen Hayes, whose mother was Burke's maternal first cousin came forward saying that as a child she'd heard stories about Burke.
She said that her relatives never knew what had happened to him. She attended the ceremony in 2017.
Meanwhile Finders International, a genealogy company, also heard the story on the radio and commenced their own search and found three of Burke's first cousins. Two of them attended the ceremony in England.
Another distant relative, Andrew Furlong, even attended a ceremony in Russia at the Vaida Bay Military Cemetery on the Rybachy Peninsula where Burke and Beardsley are buried.
Furlong said there were about fifty Russian airmen also buried at the cemetery who were shot down during the Second World War and that the cemetery had been revamped in 2017 and that a Greek Orthodox priest had blessed the graves of the Russians and a British Navy chaplain had done the same for the two British aviators.
--GreGen
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