DCM Citation
“For conspicuous gallantry and resource during operations. When, owing to casualties, the crews of some machine guns found themselves without escort, Private Burgess, although wounded, organized escorts of bombers, and assumed command until he was wounded seriously a second time.”
Source: The London Gazette. November 14, 1916. Supplement: 29824. Page: 11106.
War Diary of the 18th Battalion CEF 