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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
283523
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy. 85th Bn.
Birth:
October 11, 1894
Enlistment:
Nova Scotia
Death:
August 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. E. 2.
Additional information
Son of John and Margaret Burris, of Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia; husband of Sarah Christina Burris, of Brookvale, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia.
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Sergeant William Douglas Burris
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 378 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Fouquescourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 35.5 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The Fouquescourt British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.
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