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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
12th Field Coy.
Birth:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
November 25, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. F. 2.
Additional information
Son of Acton and Emily Engelbert Burrows, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
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Photo of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
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Newspaper Clipping
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Newspaper Clipping 2
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Gravemarker
Lt. Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows' name was included on the Burrows family monument located in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario. Photo taken in 2003. -
Inscription
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Photo of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Torontonensis 1913 (University of Toronto Year Book), pg. 168. -
Royal Canadian Yacht Club Memorial
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club World War One Memorial, Toronto, Ontario. Images of the 1926 unveiling ceremony and the names listed on the side panels of the sun dial memorial. This unveiling and the photographs were presented in a special edition booklet entitled "In Memoriam 1914-1918". -
St Thomas (Anglican) Church
St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. The octagonal Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies. Individually inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls. Each panel includes the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of death. -
War Memorial Window
One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry. -
Memorial
A detail of the memorial panel dedicated to Lt. Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario. -
Photo of Bruce Burrows
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not retrun home. <P> Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Plaque
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not retrun home. <P> Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not retrun home. <P> Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Harbord Collegiate Institute
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not retrun home. <P> Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Grave marker
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The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen beside the Tower is that of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows. After the Second World War, the names of 557 more men and women were carved in the Memorial Arch underneath the Tower. Photo: K. Parks. -
Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War
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 487 of 926. -
Inscription
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXI is dedicated: " 'Extol, ye bell, the virtue of our valorous men.' Alumni Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of BRUCE HOSMER ACTON BURROWS
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of BRUCE HOSMER ACTON BURROWS
Photo of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows as a young child. (aged 3-5 years old) -
Photo of BRUCE HOSMER ACTON BURROWS
Photo of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows taken in the backyard of his father, Acton Burrows's, home at 120 Bedford Road, Toronto prior to leaving Canada for Britain and then France, where he was killed in action. -
Photo of BRUCE HOSMER ACTON BURROWS
Posthumous portrait of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows painted in 1918 by the well-known American portrait artist, Ellen Emmet Rand, and gifted to his grieving father, Acton Burrows. Ellen Emmet Rand was the sister-in-law of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows's youngest sister, Georgina. -
Photo of BRUCE HOSMER ACTON BURROWS
Photo of Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows in uniform taken in the backyard of his father, Acton Burrows's, home at 120 Bedford Road, Toronto prior to leaving Canada for Britain and then France, where he was killed in action. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bruce Hosmer Acton Burrows
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 62 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.
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