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Military service
Service number:
412180
Age:
22
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Enlistment:
Belleville, Ontario
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 5.
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Jessie Burns, of Madoc, Ontario.
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Original Grave marker
Grave Marker 1917 -
Grave Marker
Grave Marker 2004 -
Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. -
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 383 of 926.
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Sergeant John Edward Burns
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Edward Burns
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Edward Burns
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Edward Burns
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Edward Burns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 210 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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