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Arthur Silas Burke

In memory of:

Private Arthur Silas Burke

March 24, 1917

Military Service

Service Number:

901381

Age:

25

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

42nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

October 23, 1891
Sackville, New Brunswick

Commemorated on Page 210 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

IV. G. 3.

Location:

Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Grave marker– 1918-September 3403398 O-3283 PA-003293 Lt.-Col. George Ross, the A.D.P.S. [Assistant Director of Postal Services] at grave of Sergeant Arthur William Britton, Canadian Postal Services. Ecoivres Military Cemetery, September, 1918 Grave of Private Arthur Silas Burke, 42nd Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada on the right.

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    Grave marker – 1918-September 3403398 O-3283 PA-003293 Lt.-Col. George Ross, the A.D.P.S. [Assistant Director of Postal Services] at grave of Sergeant Arthur William Britton, Canadian Postal Services. Ecoivres Military Cemetery, September, 1918 Grave of Private Arthur Silas Burke, 42nd Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada on the right.
  • Memorial– Inscription (Arthur Bourque) on the Sackville War Memorial, Sackville NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)

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    Memorial – Inscription (Arthur Bourque) on the Sackville War Memorial, Sackville NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)
  • Memorial– Inscription (Arthur Bourque) on the Sackville War Memorial, Sackville NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)

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    Memorial – Inscription (Arthur Bourque) on the Sackville War Memorial, Sackville NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)
  • Circumstances of Death Registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Burbank to Bytheway. Microform Sequence 16; Volume Number 31829_B016725. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 160. Page 157 of 926.

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    Circumstances of Death Registers
    Circumstances of Death Registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Burbank to Bytheway. Microform Sequence 16; Volume Number 31829_B016725. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 160. Page 157 of 926.
  • Grave Marker– Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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    Grave Marker – Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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