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Military service
Service number:
124726
Age:
19
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
January 1, 1898
London, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 13, 1916
London, Ontario
Death:
April 9, 1917
France
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Thomas D. and Isabella Burns, of London, Ontario.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Joseph Charles Burns
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of JOSEPH CHARLES BURNS
Pte Joseph C Burns as depicted in the December 1918 edition of The Christmas Echo published in London Ontario --And in the Morning -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lance Corporal Joseph Charles Burns
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Joseph Charles Burns
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Joseph Charles Burns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 210 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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