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Military service
Service number:
132890
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
42nd Bn.
Birth:
Glasgow, Scotland
Enlistment:
Montreal, Québec
Death:
November 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 17.
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Jane Burnside, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Alexander Burnside
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Photo of Alexander Burnside
Photo taken from "A Short History and Photographic Record of the 73rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Royal Highlanders of Canada" Page 35. 'C' Company. No. 12 Platoon. -
Attestation Papers
Source: Library and Archives Canada -
Attestation Papers (Reverse)
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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 437 of 926. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Alexander Burnside
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Burnside
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Burnside
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Burnside
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Burnside
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 378 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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