Military service
Burial/memorial information
Enrolled on 2 August 1940 to the 1st Highlanders, 2nd Battalion, Stormont and Dundas, Glengarry Highlanders – NPAM – service number 3037, replaced with number C-456554. On 26 April 1941, he was transferred to the permanent reserve before being deployed on 18 October 1941 to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, service number C-57530, to serve in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 346 days of service, including 55 overseas.
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Walter James Burgess
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Memorial
Rifleman WALTER JAMES BURGESS is one of 20 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He died of wounds substained during the defense of Hong Kong which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. In total 290 Canadian soldiers were killed and 493 were wounded in this battle. -
Inscription
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Newspaper clipping
Rifleman WALTER JAMES BURGESS was reported Missing in Action in the Canadian Army's 246th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Hamilton Spectator on January 12, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Photo of WALTER JAMES BURGESS
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Walter James Burgess
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 25 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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