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Haurongo: Burton, Ormond Edward

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Rārangi pukapuka

Burton, O.E. The silent division: New Zealanders at the front, 1914–1919, &, Concerning one man's war. Ed. J.H. Gray, Christchurch, 2014

Crane, E. I can do no other. Auckland, 1986

Grant, D. Out in the cold. Auckland, 1986

Grant, D. A question of faith: a history of the New Zealand Christian Pacifist Society​. Wellington, 2013

Grant, D. 'The Reverend Ormond Burton and his antagonists during the Second World War'. Saints and stirrers: Christianity, conflict and peacemaking in New Zealand, 1814–1945. Ed. Geoffrey Troughton, Wellington, 2017: 202–224

Noakes-Duncan, T. 'Barrington, Burton and the challenge of Christian pacifism.' Pursuing peace in Godzone: Christianity and the peace tradition in New Zealand. Eds. G. Troughton and P. Fountain, Wellington, 2018: 30–43

Obit. Auckland Star. 19 Jan. 1974 (Weekender): 8

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David Grant. 'Burton, Ormond Edward', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/126275/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).