BURNS, Cyril James
(Service number 8/1712)
| First Rank | Corporal | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 06/03/1905 | Place of Birth | Oamaru |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915 | Age | |
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| Address at Enlistment | C/- J. Watson, Port Chalmers | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | S.R.Burns (father), Attenboro, Timaru | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | 4th Reinforcements | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Otago Infantry Battalion | ||
| Date | 17 April 1915 | ||
| Transport | Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington | Destination | Suez, Egypt |
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Death
| Date | 3 February 1974 | Age | |
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Biographical Notes
Cyril James Burns was born in 1892 in Oamaru New Zealand. He married Elizabeth Gillilan on the 8th October 1918 in Musselburgh, Scotland. He died on the 3th February 1974 and is buried in the Greendale Cemetery in Selwyn District.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (August 2014); SCRoll web submission by L Mason, 6 August 2019
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Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG
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