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Military service
Service number:
526628
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Birth:
April 20, 1897
Stockport, England
Enlistment:
Montreal, Québec
Death:
August 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. E. 36.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Martha Burgess, of Ville Emard, Montreal.
Digital gallery of Private William Burgess
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Burbank to Bytheway. Microform Sequence 16; Volume Number 31829_B016725. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 160. Page 145 of 926. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private William Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private William Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private William Burgess
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 377 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FAUBOURG-D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS Pas de Calais, France
Fabourg-d'Amiens Cemetery is in the western part of the town of Arras in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle, to the south of the road to Doullens.
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