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Charles Elbridge Burden

In memory of:

Flight Lieutenant Charles Elbridge Burden

January 22, 1918
Manston, Kent, United Kingdom

Military Service


Age:

23

Force:

Navy

Unit:

Royal Naval Air Service

Citation(s):

1914-15 Star

Additional Information


Born:

September 24, 1894
Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

February 15, 1915
Toronto, Ontario

Son of William and Minnie Wright Burden of Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 584 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

TORONTO (FOREST LAWN) MAUSOLEUM
Ontario, Canada

Grave Reference:

Mausoleum 1. Grave 154C

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram November 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Charles Elbridge Burden– The W. R. Brock Co. Ltd. Roll of Honour appeared in "Canada's Aid to the Allies" and "Peace Memorial" published by the Montreal Standard Printing Co. Ltd., Montreal.   This large glossy publication included numerous Rolls of Honour belonging to Canadian businesses and was published shortly after the war's end.  W. R. Brock Co. sold wholesale dry goods, smallwares, furnishings.  Offices were located in major cities throughout Canada.  Flight Lieutenant Burden's photo appeared on the full page Roll of Honour.  He was from the company's Toronto warehouse.
  • Photo of Charles Elbridge Burden
  • Newspaper clipping– In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Honour Roll
  • Grave Marker– Flt Lieut Charles Burden died in England and his body was returned to Canada for burial. The policy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the time was to inter service members where they died. 
Flt Lieut Burden is buried in Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Toronto, Ontario.
(Photo courtesy of Craig B.Cameron, Toronto, October, 2004.)

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