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Military service
Service number:
602494
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
85th Bn.
Enlistment:
Guelph, Ontario
Death:
September 25, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. F. 48.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Coburn.
Digital gallery of Private Gordon Coburn
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CLEAL TO CONNOLLY. Microform Sequence 21; Volume Number 31829_B016730. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 395 of 1384. -
Photo of Gordon Coburn
This picture of Gordon was taken when he was 18 years of age. He lived in Harriston and secretly enlisted in Toronto against the wishes of his parents and family. He wrote many letters home until he was killed in France and one such letter had a poem, 4 lines of which are: ...The saber and lances clatter/The roar of war and its guns/All make up the hell of the battle/That rages from sun until sun/...
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Coburn
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Coburn
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 386 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FAUBOURG-D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS Pas de Calais, France
Fabourg-d'Amiens Cemetery is in the western part of the town of Arras in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle, to the south of the road to Doullens.
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