Descendants of John Burgar (1742-1797)

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 Albert Michael Burgar (1897-1916) - son of Joseph Henry Burgar (1868-1928) - son of Walter Burgar (1834-1897) - son of Joseph Burgar (1794-1854) - son of John Burgar (1742-1797)

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Albert Michael Burgar was born in 1897 in Farnham Hants.¹⁶ Civil Registration of Births reference is Dec 1897 V 2a p 106  - Farnham Hants¹⁶

GRO Regimental Birth Indices (1761-1924) has : 

Albert M Burgar               Aldershot,   1897               15^th  Hussars 282, 56

Albert M Burgar                Aldershot,   1897                8^th  Hussars 270, 132

It seems that his father, Joseph Henry Burgar, recorded the birth in both the registers for the 15th and 8th Hussars Regiments.

Albert Michael Burgar joined up for the First World War in 1914 when he was 16 years old.

He died in 1916 at France.¹⁶ The entry in the War Graves commission register has:

Albert Michael died 19/3/1916. In 27th Siege Battery of Royal Garrison Artillery. Buried Mericourt-L'Abbe Comunal Cemetery Extension Plot 1 Row B grave 16. (South of Ancre River and Amiens-Albert railway. Son of J.H. Burgar of Higher Broughton. Burgar Albert, Gunner, No 53075 R.G.A.

Civil Registration of Death reference is 1916 V A5 p 40 (Military section?) - France.¹⁶

He was killed in action in 1916 at 18 years of age. ¹¹¹

See photo of Tombstone in Mericourt le Abbé between the towns of Amiens and Albert near the river Ancre in France. When we visited it in 1987 it had a small red rose bush planted alongside.

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