AMERICAN MINISTER

Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22246, 15 January 1944, Page 4

AMERICAN MINISTER

DEATH ANNOUNCED HON. WILLIAM C. BURDETT (By Telegrapn.—rress Association) WELLINGTON, Friday It is announced Mr Raymond Cfox, First Secretary of the United States Legation in New Zealand, that the Hon. William Carter Burdett, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in New Zealand, died this morning. Mr Burdett had been in a nursing home from shortly after his arrival some months ago. After active service in the last war, in which he won the rank of captain and the awards of the American Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix de Guerre, Mr Burdett was appointed to the foreign service and assigned to Mexico as Consul to Ensenada. He served successively in Seville, Brussels and Peru, where he was Consul-General and First Secretary to the Embassy. Mr Burdett was transferred in 1933 to Panama as First Secretary and two years later moved to Buenos Aires as Consul-General. He was later in Rio de Janeiro and was assigned to the State Department in 1941 as Director of the Foreign Service Officers’ Training School before his appointment as Minister to New Zealand ifi June last year. His wife and two young daughters accompanied him to Wellington. There are two sons, one of whom is an officer of the United States Foreign Service at present Vice-Consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador.