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Private JOHN URQUHART BURNS

Service Number: 2888497
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 November 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY

VI. G. 5.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Burns and of Mary Jane Burns (nee Urquhart); husband of Elsie Duncan Burns (nee Maclean), of Milton, Banffshire.
  • Personal Inscription SACRED TO HIS MEMORY
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Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 693
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