Current Information:

Age-33

25, Risinghill Street, Islington

Kensal Green (St Mary's) RC Cemetery

Peter Burns died from wounds on 13th March, 1915, after having been brought back to the United Kingdom but as yet, there is no information, as to when and where he was wounded. The 1st East Surrey battalion was part of 14 Brigade, 5th Division that had arrived in France at the beginning of the war and had been involved in the fighting on the Western Front since that date. In early 1915 the battalion was involved in holding the line in Belgium to the south of Ypres.