Cleets Crooks Burr - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37641

About

Born in New Zealand

20 November 1890

Parents

Mother

Elizabeth Burr

Father

John Burr

Residence

Hometown

Ngahere

Work

Occupation

Farmer

Employer

Own

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 50

27 August 1941

Sources

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 23/0020709, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Cleets Crooks Burr (1890-1941)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 8 November 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/89