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Military service
Service number:
61880
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
July 21, 1887
Durham, Richmond, Québec
Enlistment:
January 27, 1915
St-Jean, Iberville, Québec
Death:
April 21, 1917
Étaples, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIX. F. 8.
Additional information
Baptized Harold-Weare Borland. Son of David-Ray Borland (deceased in 1909) and Charlotte Weare. Married to Georgiana Godin in 1905, he was father of two children in the 1911 census.
He was in a Divisionary school building in Lières when the roof collapsed. He died five days later at General Hospital n° 1 in Étaples.
Additional citations
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Harold Weare Borland
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Border to Boys. Mircoform Sequence 12; Volume Number 131829_B016721; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 156 Page 25 of 934 -
Cemetery
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
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Grave marker
Grave marker
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Private Harold Weare Borland
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Private Harold Weare Borland
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Weare Borland
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Weare Borland
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Weare Borland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 204 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
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