Gladstone Burgess

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772795

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

September 1st, 1918

Cemetery:

Bully-Grenay British Cemetery, British Extension - Pas de Calais, France - IV.G.7.

Commemorated at:

St. George Memorial Plaque

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Norfolk

Birth city:

Waterford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Market Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

59 St. Paul Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Coremaker

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Cite St. Pierre.

BX February 1, 1918

Word has been received by the local branch of the Patriotic Association that Private Gladstone Burgess was killed in action on Jan. 22. The word came to the Patriotic Association because John C. Burgess who was given as next of kin and whose address was given at 59 St. Paul’s Avenue, could not be located.

BX June 17, 1915

Told to Enlist

Gladstone Burgess, who claims Brantford as his home, appeared before Police Magistrate Judd, of London yesterday, with 15 other fellow hoboes and they were advised to “go and enlist if there was anything in them.” The gang of undesirables had been located in the yards of the Grand Trunk Railway, and according to their stories they were bound for one lake port or another to go sailing. The magistrate ordered them out of the city for at least six months.