Major league baseball player in 1914. Centerfielder for the New York Yankees.
Veteran - US Air Service, WW I.
He was killed in an airplane accident on October 12, 1918 while serving in the United States Army Air Service in Cazaux, France. After colliding with a fellow pilot, Burr's plane crashed into a lake in flames; his body was recovered after 12 days. He had been serving in France since November 1917 and was 24 years old at the time of his death.
Burr was interred in American Expeditionary Forces Cemetery No. 29. During the years after the end of World War I, this cemetery was deconsecrated. Some of the bodies exhumed — including Burr's — were repatriated. His final resting place became Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.
Veteran - US Air Service, WW I.
He was killed in an airplane accident on October 12, 1918 while serving in the United States Army Air Service in Cazaux, France. After colliding with a fellow pilot, Burr's plane crashed into a lake in flames; his body was recovered after 12 days. He had been serving in France since November 1917 and was 24 years old at the time of his death.
Burr was interred in American Expeditionary Forces Cemetery No. 29. During the years after the end of World War I, this cemetery was deconsecrated. Some of the bodies exhumed — including Burr's — were repatriated. His final resting place became Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.
Major league baseball player in 1914. Centerfielder for the New York Yankees.
Veteran - US Air Service, WW I.
He was killed in an airplane accident on October 12, 1918 while serving in the United States Army Air Service in Cazaux, France. After colliding with a fellow pilot, Burr's plane crashed into a lake in flames; his body was recovered after 12 days. He had been serving in France since November 1917 and was 24 years old at the time of his death.
Burr was interred in American Expeditionary Forces Cemetery No. 29. During the years after the end of World War I, this cemetery was deconsecrated. Some of the bodies exhumed — including Burr's — were repatriated. His final resting place became Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.
Veteran - US Air Service, WW I.
He was killed in an airplane accident on October 12, 1918 while serving in the United States Army Air Service in Cazaux, France. After colliding with a fellow pilot, Burr's plane crashed into a lake in flames; his body was recovered after 12 days. He had been serving in France since November 1917 and was 24 years old at the time of his death.
Burr was interred in American Expeditionary Forces Cemetery No. 29. During the years after the end of World War I, this cemetery was deconsecrated. Some of the bodies exhumed — including Burr's — were repatriated. His final resting place became Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.
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