Military service
Service number:
401486
Age:
33
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
October 17, 1884
Aberdeen, Scotland
Enlistment:
August 17, 1915
London, Ontario
Death:
November 5, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Isobel Birse, of 122, Union Grove, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Corporal James Charles Birse
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Photo of James Charles Birse
James Charles Birse (Exact date of photo unknown but probably taken during the years of the Great Ware before he was killed in 1917) -
Letter (March 31, 1916)
Letter dated March 31, 1916 sent by James Charles to his brother on arrival in the UK from Canada at the start of WWI. -
Letter (March 31, 1916)
Letter dated March 31, 1916 sent by James Charles to his brother on arrival in the UK from Canada at the start of WWI. -
Letter (October 6, 1916)
letter dated October 6, 1916 sent by James Charles to his brother from hospital in England during WWI. -
Letter (October 6, 1916)
Letter dated October 6, 1916 sent by James Charles to his brother from hospital in England during WWI. -
Letter (October 6, 1916)
Letter dated October 6, 1916 sent by James Charles to his brother from hospital in England during WWI. -
Letter (October 6, 1916)
Letter dated October 6, 1916 sent by James Charles to his brother from hospital in England during WWI. -
Letter (December 28, 1917)
Letter received by the mother (Isobel Birse) of James Birse in which James's commanding officer, Lt. Turner, informs her of James's death at the Front late 1917. -
Letter (December 28, 1917)
Letter received by the mother (Isobel Birse) of James Birse in which James's commanding officer, Lt. Turner, informs her of James's death at the Front late 1917. -
Letter (December 28, 1917)
Letter received by the mother (Isobel Birse) of James Birse in which James's commanding officer, Lt. Turner, informs her of James's death at the Front late 1917. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Charles Birse
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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