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Military service
Service number:
470202
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
February 3, 1897
Enlistment:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of James and Susan Cody Burns, of 35, Columbus St., Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Private Cyril James Burns
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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 333 of 926. -
Inscription
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Cyril James Burns
Digital gallery of
Private Cyril James Burns
Digital gallery of
Private Cyril James Burns
Digital gallery of
Private Cyril James Burns
Digital gallery of
Private Cyril James Burns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 210 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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