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Military service
Service number:
80009
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Bn.
Birth:
November 21, 1888
Belfast
Enlistment:
December 12, 1914
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
April 4, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Paul Burney of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Brother of Mary McGee Burney, of Belfast, Northern Ireland and John P. Burney, of Dublin, Ireland.
Digital gallery of Private Hugh Burney
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Burney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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