 Ormond Burton

Ormond Edward Burton (16 January 1893 – 7 January 1974) was a New Zealand-born teacher, soldier, war historian, Christian pacifist, Methodist clergyman, and writer, who was the co-founder (with Archibald Charles Barrington) of the Christian Pacifist Society of New Zealand.A soldier in the First World War, and a recipient of the Military Medal for gallantry during a trench raid in 1917, Burton was imprisoned several times for his opposition to the Second World War, and was expelled from the Methodist church.