Citation(s);
Military service
Burial/memorial information
Distinguished Conduct Medal.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Henry Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Burgess
From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Burgess
This image is of a postcard sent to Robert Burgess from his mother. Found in a shop in Liverpool, England
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Burgess
A postcard sent to Robert Burgess from his friend Alice West in 1914
Image gallery
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Private Burgess' grave, May 2016. Rest in Peace.
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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 131 of 926.
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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This image is of a postcard sent to Robert Burgess from his mother. Found in a shop in Liverpool, England
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A postcard sent to Robert Burgess from his friend Alice West in 1914
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
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