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BURNS, Cyril James
(Service number 8/1712)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	06/03/1905	Place of Birth	Oamaru

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	C/- J. Watson, Port Chalmers
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	S.R.Burns (father), Attenboro, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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	3 February 1974	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Greendale Cemetery, Selwyn District
New Zealand Memorials

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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Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

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