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Military service
Service number:
8420
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
June 1, 1891
Belfast, County Antrim
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier
Death:
April 26, 1915
Brieland, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Robert and Margaret Boreland. Brother of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Boreland of Balliskillan, Belfast, Ireland.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Robert John Boreland
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Group Photo
Captain William H. Hooper (foreground) of Carleton Place, Ontario with Pte. Robert Boreland (background) at Salisbury Plain in 1914 or 1915. -
Photo of ROBERT JOHN BORELAND
Robert John Boreland -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Robert John Boreland
Digital gallery of
Private Robert John Boreland
Digital gallery of
Private Robert John Boreland
Digital gallery of
Private Robert John Boreland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 6 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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