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Military service
Service number:
77407
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
July 23, 1887
Spring Valley, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
November 14, 1914
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
June 20, 1916
Boulogne, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. B. 101.
Additional information
Son of David and Hannah Burns, of Spring Valley, Prince Edward Island.
Digital gallery of Private John David Burns
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Malpeque War Memorial
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Inscription
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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 381 of 926. -
Photo of John David Burns
Victoria B.C., 1915 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 30, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y173uvic#mode/1up.
Digital gallery of
Private John David Burns
Digital gallery of
Private John David Burns
Digital gallery of
Private John David Burns
Digital gallery of
Private John David Burns
Digital gallery of
Private John David Burns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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