Captain Maurice Burnett

Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Attached: 2nd Batt. Norfolk Regiment
Date published: 28/12/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 14/04/1915
Age at death: 26
Cemetery: Basra War Cemetery, Iraq
Plot: III. C. 1.
Information: Captain Maurice Burnett, Royal Army Medical Corps, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., who was killed in action at Shaiba, Persia, was born in October, 1888, and was the youngest son of Surgeon-General and Mrs. Burnett, of Richmond, Surrey. He was a student of St. George's Hospital, where he was senior house physician. He embarked for India, January 21st, 1914, and went to Mesopotamia with a field ambulance in November, 1914, and was afterwards attached to the 2nd Norfolk Regiment as medical officer. He fell in action on April 14th, 1915, and was mentioned in Sir J. Nixon's despatch, for conspicuous courage in attended to the wounded under heavy fire.