PRIVATE WILLIAM BURNS.
Private William Burns was the eldest son of the late Mr. W. Burns, for many years Officer-in-Charge of the Coast Guards at Bangor, and of Mrs. Burns, Garth Road, Bangor. He served his apprenticeship as a teacher in Garth Board School, and then decided to go in for the Civil Service. He passed into the Customs, and was appointed to Carnarvon, and then to Bangor. His duties brought him into close contact with the local seafaring men, by whom he was held in high esteem. He then took up a Customs appointment on the West Coast of Africa, and eventually emigrated to Australia. Although long past military age, he volunteered for active service, and joined the Australian Imperial Force. In an attack upon the Germans, in which his unit suffered heavily, he was severely gassed, and died in Hospital at Rouen, about four days afterwards, on the 22nd of May, 1918.
