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Military service
Service number:
454219
Age:
22
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Enlistment:
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
September 17, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Horatio Maxwell Burnes, of 252, East Eighth St., South Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and the late Sarah Jane Burnes.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Corporal William Albert Burnes
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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 423 of 926. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Corporal William Albert Burnes
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Albert Burnes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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