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Full Name
Charles Willox Burr
Rank Last Held
Private
Forename(s)
Charles Willox
Surname
Burr
Also Known As
Wittox
War
World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No.
51553
Gender
Male
First Known Rank
Private
Occupation before Enlistment
Team driver
Next of Kin
Mrs Jane Burr (mother), Headrooms, Normay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Marital Status
Single
Body on Embarkation
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Embarkation Unit
26th Reinforcements E Company
Embarkation Date
12 June 1917
Place of Embarkation
Wellington, New Zealand
Transport
HMNZT 86
Vessel
Maunganui
Destination
Plymouth, England
Nominal Roll Number
67
Page on Nominal Roll
5
Last Unit Served
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 3rd
Place of Death
Ypres, Belgium
Date of Death
16 October 1917
Age at Death
32
Year of Death
1917
Cause of Death
Killed in action
Memorial Name
  • Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
  • Rotorua War Memorial (World War 1)
Memorial Reference
N.Z. Apse, Panel 1.
Biographical Notes
Son of George and Jane Burr, of Headrooms, Lonmay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Description of Image
  • Rotorua War Memorial (World War 1) (Photo Clare Ann Fortune 2004)
  • Rotorua Memorial, Name plaque Ackroyd, A. - Burr, C.W.; Commemorative Text - To the glory of God and the honour of brave men this monument is erected by grateful people; Name plaque Carnachan, A. - Field, A. (Photo Clare Ann Fortune 2004)
Additional Information
Listed by CWGC as Wittox (November 2011)
Archives NZ source
Military personnel file
Sources Used
Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1918