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Military service
Service number:
77850
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
February 24, 1890
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
August 27, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. C 31.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. A. D. Burgess, of Norwood, Dumbarton, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private William Burgess
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Entrance
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 10, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y235uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 12, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y237uvic#mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Private William Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private William Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private William Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private William Burgess
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 7 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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