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Military service
Service number:
D/82673
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
September 3, 1920
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
July 18, 1940
Montreal, Québec
Death:
July 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. D. 13.
Additional information
Son of Fredrick and Sarah Burden, of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Private Harold Burden
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Photo of Harold Burden
Harold Burden 1st Battalion Canadian Black Watch. D Company 16 Platoon and Scout platoon. Died July 25 1944 in the Battle for Verrieres ridge. -
Grave Marker
Harolds grave 1944 -
Grave Marker
Harolds grave now -
D Company 16 Platoon
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Photo of Harold Burden
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Photo of Harold Burden
Harold Burden. Second Canadian infantry division,overseas middle weight champion. -
Photo of Bill and Harold Burden
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Black Watch Boxing team
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D Company 16 Platoon
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Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Burden
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Burden
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 262 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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