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Military service
Service number:
157545
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
December 15, 1917
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Son of George and Hannah Burgess, of Pefferlaw, Ontario.
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Grave Marker
157545 Private William H. Burgess P.P.C.L.I, C.E.F. 15th Dec, 1917 A Bitter Grief, A Shock Severe To Part with him we love so dear [FYI, locally this cemetery is know as Wilfrid (Hart) Cemetery. This is also the term used by publications of the Ontario Genealogical Society] -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William Harvey Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private William Harvey Burgess
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Commemorated on:
Page 210 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WILFRID PUBLIC CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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