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Lieutenant BRUCE HOSMER ACTON BURROWS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Engineers

12th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 25 November 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY, ALBERT

I. F. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Acton and Emily Engelbert Burrows, of 120, Bedford Rd., Toronto. Born at Winnipeg.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS MERRY YOUTH AWAY FOR COUNTRY AND FOR GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY, ALBERT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 410
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