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Cenotaph record

Elvin Denzil Burton

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Elvin Denzil AWMM
  • Surname
    Burton AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    61922 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    29 June 1915 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM 3 Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM 3 Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM 3 Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM 3 Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs W.E. Burton (mother), 3 Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs W.E. Burton (mother), 3 Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs W.E. Burton (mother), 3 Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs W.E. Burton (mother), 3 Cornwall Park Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • Pacific Theatre of War AWMM
    • 1939-1945 WW2 AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    61922 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Teacher, Dilworth School 1938 - 1940

    Oxford University, Merton College 1946-1947

    Listed as Sergeant on Nominal Roll 14, perhaps a typo AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    1 December 1997 AWMM
    Age 82 AWMM
    AWMM
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  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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Sources

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    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 6 (Embarkations from 1st October, 1941 to 31st December, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 6: WW2 7 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 9 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1942 to 31st December, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 9: WW2 58 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 12 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1943 to 31st December, 1943). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 12: WW2 29 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 14: WW2 16 AWMM
    • Lewis, E. (c.2009). Dilworth School, Staff and Old Boys' Service in World Wars I and II. Auckland, N.Z.: Dilworth School. Unpublished doument. AWMM

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