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Military service
Service number:
R/100937
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
February 19, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. R. Lot 818. Grave 4.
Additional information
Son of John Thomas and Annie Elizabeth Burns of Toronto. Husband of Gladys Burns of Toronto
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John William Burns
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of JOHN WILLIAM BURNS
In memory of the students from the Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute (Toronto) who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
In memory of the students from the Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute (Toronto) who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
In memory of the students from the Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute (Toronto) who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Badge
In memory of the students from the Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute (Toronto) who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Roll of honour
In memory of the students from the Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute (Toronto) who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Book of Remembrance
In memory of the students from the Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute (Toronto) who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Other
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Other
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation Papers
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Other
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Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John William Burns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John William Burns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John William Burns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John William Burns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 263 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TORONTO (PARK LAWN) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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