Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Korean War Memorial – Korean War Monument in Ottawa, Ontario.

Korean War Memorial – Close–up of the Korean War Monument in Ottawa, Ontario. This features a Canadian soldier, facing toward Busan, Korea, where an identical monument watches over the graves of 378 Canadians in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Accompanying the volunteer are two Korean children, both holding symbols: the girl, a bouquet of maple leaves symbolizing Canada; and the boy, a bouquet of maple leaves and roses of Sharon, the national flower of Korea.

Korean War Memorial – Dedicatory inscription on the Korean War Monument in Ottawa, Ontario.

Korean War Memorial – Lance Corporal THOMAS BURGESS, of the Royal 22nd Regiment, is one of 23 soldiers commemorated on this panel, and is one of the 516 soldiers whose names appear on the Korean War Monument in Ottawa. It was erected IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE CANADIAN WHO DIED IN SERVICE DURING THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953 AND ON KOREAN PEACE KEEPING DUTIES, 1953-1957. Private BURGESS died on August 17, 1952 and is buried in the UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN), South Korea. Privates JOSEPH ARMAND MERCIER and JEAN ROCH MERCIER, also of the Royal 22nd Regiment, died on the same day.