Private William Taylor Burns
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Burns,
William Taylor
Date of birth: 1885-12-15
Place of birth: Lanark Scotland
Next of kin: Robert Burns, 631 Hawthorn St., Glasgow, Scotland
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Locomotive Engineer
Occupation (normalized): Mechanical Engineer (Motors and Engines, except Marine)
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death:
1915-05-08
Cause of death:
Missing, presumed killed
Buried:
Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial, .
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 22941
Highest Rank:
Private
(Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry)
Rank detail
Private, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
RESEARCH INFORMATION
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CWGC ID: 922560
LAC ID:
77719
Service file: B1308-S037
Uploader's Notes:
Original overseas unit: 12th Canadian Infantry Battalion. Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field February 24, 1915. Wounded and missing presumed died at Bellewaerde Lake/Frezenberg May 8, 1915.
Son of Robert Taylor Burns and Helen McKinnon Burns, of 631, Hawthorn St., Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland
Uploader's Research notes: [Private Army Canadian Infantry Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2008-01-11