Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
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Family Search: Private Samuel George Burcombe was born on 1 January 1897, in Shoreditch, London, England, United Kingdom as the son of Mary Ann Dewey. He immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1919 and lived in Cairo, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1916 and Ralston, Manitoba, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as farmer in Cairo, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
Records show attached to 1st Battalion but served with the 18th.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 