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Military service
Service number:
B/136987
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Death:
July 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
52. B. 8.
Additional information
Son of Mark and Martha Burton; husband of Doris Mary Burton, of Lindsay, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Hugh Norman Burton
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Grave Marker
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Cemetery
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Memorial
Near this spot on July 5, 1944, nine Canadian soldiers of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment were killed by a flying bomb. This stone records our gratitude to them and their Canadian comrades for all they did for the cause of freedom. Crowborough Canadian Memorial
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Norman Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Norman Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Norman Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Norman Burton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 264 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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