Private

James Allen Burnes

Conflict: 
WW1
Additional Information: 

Son of Charles and Annie Burnes, of 76, Surrey St., South Dunedin, New Zealand. Left Dunedin as Trumpeter to 5th Otago Mounted Rifles, 1914. Born at Wellington.

References:
  • CWGC
  • Archives New Zealand
NZ WAR GRAVES

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Personal Tributes:

Casualty

Service Number: 
9/584
Name:
James Allen Burnes
Rank: 
Private
Date of Birth:
Not known
Next of Kin: 
Mrs A. Burnes (mother), 46 Surrey Street, South Dunedin, New Zealand
Date of Enlistment:
Not known
Enlistment Address: 
Middlemarch Post-office, Middlemarch, New Zealand
Armed Force: 
Army
Unit:
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, 2 Company

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:
Killed in action
Date of Death:
27 March 1918
Day of Death:
Wednesday
Age at Death: 
23
Conflict: 
WW1

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:
Main Body
Embarkation Place:
Port Chalmers, New Zealand
Embarkment Date:
16 October 1914
Transport:

HMNZT 5
HMNZT 9
Vessel:
Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Destination:
Suez, Egypt

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery Reference: 
V. C. 27.
Cemetery Location: 
France
James Allen Burnes
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