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Son of Frank Burgess and Amy Cecilia Carson. During the First World War, Frank enlisted on 23 September 1914 with the Reserve Park of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 35355, at Camp Valcartier, Quebec. He arrived in England on 3 October and set foot in France on 25 April 1915 to fight with the 1st Canadian Divisional Train. Repatriated on 10 March 1919, he was demobilized on the 11th. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Arriving in Japan on 14 April 1952, it landed in Pusan, South Korea. The Canadian brigade stretched between the villages of Paujogol and Kojanhari-Saemal, and the Royal 22e Régiment defended the left. A member of the 1st Battalion, B Company, he was killed in action on 17 August 1952.
His name is inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Peel, Ontario, as well as on the Korean War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, a monument identical to the one in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Pusan, South Korea.
Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Thomas Burgess
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Korean War Memorial
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Korean War Memorial
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Korean War Memorial
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Korean War Memorial
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Thomas Burgess
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Thomas Burgess
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Thomas Burgess
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Thomas Burgess
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Thomas Burgess
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 9 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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