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Military service
Service number:
136319
Age:
34
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
August 18, 1882
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 3.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. E. Burns, of 47, Butterland St., East Rd., London; husband of Elizabeth A. Burns, of Brampton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Edward Edwin Burns
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Group Photo
Lance Corporal Edward Edwin Burns is included in this group portrait of Brampton Ontario men. Source: William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto 1935, pg. 400. -
Photo of Edward Burns
Caption (pg. 377): Soldiers of Peel Who Lost Their Lives During the Great War. Author - William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto, 1935. -
Grave marker
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Photo of EDWARD EDWIN BURNS
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward Edwin Burns
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward Edwin Burns
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward Edwin Burns
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward Edwin Burns
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward Edwin Burns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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