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Military service
Service number:
91578
Age:
18
Rank:
Acting Bombardier
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
4th Bde.
Enlistment:
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
September 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 10.
Additional information
Son of John and Mary Townsend (formerly Burley), of Mount Hamilton, Ontario. Native of Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Digital gallery of Acting Bombardier William Fredrick Burley
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Newspaper Clipping
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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 243 of 926. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier William Fredrick Burley
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier William Fredrick Burley
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier William Fredrick Burley
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier William Fredrick Burley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 210 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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