Edward Frank Burgess

Rank:

Lieutenant

Regimental number:

406042

Unit at enlistment:

36th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

October 1st, 1918

Cemetery:

Sancourt British Cemetery - Nord, France - I.B.1.

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Burford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

66 Stanley Street, London, Ontario

Next of kin address:

66 Stanley Street, London, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Salesman

Employer:

Consolidated Rubber Company

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action. While taking part with his Battalion in an attack on the railway embankment in front of Abancourt, on the morning of October 1st, 1918, he was hit by an enemy machine gun bullet. He received immediate attention but died shortly afterwards.

BX October 22, 1918

Mrs. Jane Burgess of 66 Stanley Street, London, has been notified that her son, Lieutenant Edward Frank Burgess, previously reported wounded and missing and later as only wounded, in now officially reported killed in action. Lieut. Burgess was but 27 years of age, and went overseas from Brantford in March 1915, with a quota from the Dufferin Rifles. He had been a traveller for the Consolidated Rubber Company of Montreal, with headquarters at Edmonton. He was born in Burford, Brant County.