Family Search: When Private Gordon Gideon Burden was born on 1 August 1892, in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, William John Burden, was 40 and his mother, Eliza Helen Alexander, was 34. He lived in Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as cigarmaker. He died on 9 April 1917, in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 24,
Private Gordon Gideon Burden, reg. no. 802604.
This man enlisted with the 135th Overseas Battalion on 7 January 1915, at London, Ontario. he was a cigarmaker by trade and a Methodist.
With the 135th Battalion he went overseas, leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia on 22 August 1916 and arrived at Liverpool, England on 30 August 1916.
He was transferred to the 116th Battalion on 15 October 1916 at Bramshott Camp and he was transferred to the 18th Battalion for overseas service on the 25 November 1916.
Going over to the Continent, he arrived the Canadian Base Depo, Harve, on the 29th. From there he was transported to the 18th Battalion, arriving “in the field” on 3 December 1916.
He served with the 18th Battalion without interruption, until he was “Killed in Action” at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on 9 April 1917. He was killed near the village of Thelus and has no known grave.
This soldier is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial.
Source: April 1917 casualty.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 