The Fallen of the Glossop Area.

BURKHARD, F.

Burkhard, Frank, Private, 11338, 4th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Born Glossop, Derbyshire
Enlisted Valcartier Camp, Quebec, Canada
Died of wounds 27th April 1915 aged 23
Son of Charles and Marie Burkhard, of 27, Paternoster Row, Sheffield.
Buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, VIII, A, 28

1911 Census
A pork butcher
A servant in the household of Charles Stier, a pork butcher, of 141, St. Philip's Road, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Canadian Army Service records information:
Frank was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, on the 9th March, 1891. He enlisted at Valcartier Camp, Quebec, 22nd September, 1914, stating his occupation as a butcher and his next of kin as Mary Burkhard, of 4, George Street, Glossop, Derbyshire. He had previously served for two years in the D.R.C., and five years in the 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
He was five feet eight and a half inches in height, had a fair complexion, brown eyes and brown hair, and he belonged to the Church of England. He had four vaccination marks on his left arm.

Commemorated on the memorial at: Glossop.

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