New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

2nd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

21416

About

Born in New Zealand

17 December 1890

Residence

Hometown

Palmerston North

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

Rongotea Town Board

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

E. G. Burns

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5530 22/0020652, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.34, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 41.

Anthony Byledbal, “John William Burns (1890-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/88