Percy BURTON

Regimental number40433
OccupationLabourer
Next of kinWife, Mrs Selina Dorothy Burton, c/o Mrs Barty, Verdun Dining Rooms, Featherston
Rank on embarkationPrivate
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 24th Reinforcements (2nd Draft), Specialist Company, Machine Gun Section
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board HMNZT 82 Pakeha on 26 April 1917
Final rankPrivate
Final unitNew Zealand Machine Gun Corps
FateDied of wounds 3 May 1918
Age at death from cemetery records37
Place of burialBrookwood Military Cemetery (Plot VIII, Row B, Grave No 16), Surrey, England
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Wife: Selina D. Burton, 7 Brunswick Street, Auckland
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 3: Roll 60, p. 12