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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
32nd Battery, 8th Brigade
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 28, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 1.
Additional information
Son of the Reverend R. N. Burns, D.D. and Mrs. M. C. Burns, of 486 Jarvis St., Toronto, Ontario
Digital gallery of Major William James Gordon Burns
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Photo of William James Gordon Burns
From "The War Book of Upper Canada College", edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923. This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during the First World War. -
Memorial Tablet
Major William James Gordon Burns is remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet. It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during the First World War. Upper Canada College is located in Toronto, Ontario. -
Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of William Burns
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Acta Victoriana War Supplement
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Photo of William Burns
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen beside the Tower is that of William James Gordon Burns. After the Second World War, the names of 557 more men and women were carved in the Memorial Arch underneath the Tower. Photo: K. Parks. -
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 429 of 926. -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Memorial
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXII is dedicated: "The Alumni Association and friends of Victoria College". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
Digital gallery of
Major William James Gordon Burns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 377 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ONTARIO CEMETERY, SAINS-LES-MARQUION Nord, France
Sains-les-Marquion is a village and it lies approximately 2 kilometres south of Marquion, which lies on the main straight road from Arras to Cambrai. The Ontario Cemetery lies to the south of the village. The cemetery was made after the capture of Sains-les-Marquion by the Canadian Division on September 27, 1918. The Cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice and now covers an area of 949 square metres. It is enclosed by a rubble wall.
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