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Military service
Service number:
65136
Age:
22
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
3rd Tunnelling Coy.
Birth:
September 16, 1893
Enlistment:
Montreal
Death:
June 5, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Andrew and Elizabeth Burns, of 56, Harvie St, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Sapper James Burns
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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 355 of 926.
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Burns
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Burns
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Burns
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Burns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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