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Military service
Service number:
441712
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
14th Bn.
Birth:
January 23, 1881
Dresden, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 16, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
September 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. D. 3.
Additional information
Husband of Grace E. Burnie, of Windsor, Ontario.
Additional citations
Victory Medal, British War Medal
Digital gallery of Private James Burnie
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Coupure de presse
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private James Burnie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Courcelette is a village some 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The Courcelette British Cemetery is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track, suitable for cars, from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres. The route is signposted in the village.
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