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Military service
Service number:
431142
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade
Division:
Eatons Motor Machine Gun Bty.
Birth:
September 24, 1897
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
June 13, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sp. Mem. J. 15.
Additional information
Son of Frank Burton Annie Maude Brown (formerly Burton), of British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Raymond Clifford Burton
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Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 24, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y168uvic#mode/1up. -
Wartime diary
Page 6 of the war diary of the Eaton Motor Machine Gun Battery which details the circumstances of death for Private Burton. -
Photo of RAYMOND CLIFFORD BURTON
From the Daily Colonist of June 25, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y169uvic#page/n9/mode/1up. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver (B. C.) newspaper c. 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Clifford Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Clifford Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Clifford Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Clifford Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Clifford Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Clifford Burton
Digital gallery of
Private Raymond Clifford Burton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 62 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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