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BURNS, Archibald Gower
(Service number 6/423)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Calcutta, India

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Arcade, Timaru
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Benjamin H. Burns, 35 Chester St West, Christchurch
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt, Gallipoli
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	2 November 1916	Age
Place of Death	New Zealand
Cause	Suicide
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference	Block 47. Lot 1967
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Benjamion Henry and Alice May Gower Burns

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (August 2014); "Returned soldier's suicide", Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 108, 3 November 1916, Page 2

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

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