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Cenotaph Stories

Burton, Hugh Norman

Rank
Private.
Service No.
B/136987
Unit
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, RCIC
Died
5 July 1944
Age 27
Buried
Brookwood Military Cemetery Surrey, UK. - 52. B. 8.
Remembrance:
Second World War Book of Remembrance - Page 264
Additional Info
Son of Mark and Martha Burton; Husband of Doris Mary Burton, of Lindsay, Ontario

Transcriptions:
 

July 21/44

Husband of Local Woman Killed by Bomb

The sad news has been received by Mrs. Burton, 37 Durham St. W., that her husband Hugh Norman Burton 23, was killed in England on July 5, by an enemy bomb.

He was well known in Lindsay having been employed in the Dominion Arsenal for some time. At the time of his enlistment in the Ordnance Corps a year ago last Christmas he was living in Toronto. He has been overseas a year. His parents reside in Toronto. His wife was formerly Doris Mary Saville and they have one little boy a year old.