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Charles Ritchie Burns was born 27 May 1898 in Blenheim, New Zealand. He was the eldest son in a family of three boys and two girls. His grandfather was Dr Robert Burns of Dunedin. Through his parents, Archibald Douglas Burns, a Marlborough civil servant, and Margaret Mary Direen, Charles had Scottish and Irish ancestory. He was educated by the Sisters of Mercy at St Mary's Primary School and at Nelson College before entering the Otago Medical School in 1916. He graduated MB ChB with distinction in 1922 and won both the Medical Travelling Scholarships and Batchelor Memorial Medal for Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
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