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Military service
Service number:
603095
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
March 26, 1895
Enlistment:
Galt, Ontario
Death:
October 1, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. A. 8.
Additional information
Son of Isabella Jane Burgess, of Abbey St., Fermoy, Ireland, and Charles Henry Burgess. Employed at the Imperial Bank of Canada, Galt, Ontario. Enlisted August, 1915.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Alan Burgess
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Galt War Memorial
The Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Ontario. Circa 1930. Frances Loring and William Lyon Somerville.<P> Inscribed:"TO THEM ALL HONOUR / GUARD YE THEIR VICTORY / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / 1950-1953." -
Close up of Galt War Memorial
Detail of the Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial. -
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 135 of 926. -
Biography
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Thomas Alan Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Alan Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Alan Burgess
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Alan Burgess
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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