BURROWS, Henry John
| Service Number: | 7449 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 October 1916, Perth, WA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 2 July 1894 |
| Home Town: | Harvey, Harvey, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Murdered - gunshot wound, Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 21 March 1937, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Presbyterian-Ha-0565 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7449, 11th Infantry Battalion, Perth, WA | |
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| 29 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 7449, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 7449, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Fremantle |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Henry John BURROWS, (Service Number 2157) was born on 29 January 1893 at Penrith. He began work for the Locomotive Branch of the NSW Government Railways as a temporary fitter at Penrith on 4 January 1915. Only six months later he was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces though he continued to receive pay increments in 1916 and 1917.
As might be expected of a fitter, he was allocated to the 14th Field Company of Engineers, and indeed in his Attestation Papers on enlistment he gives his calling as ‘engineer’. He had not served his apprenticeship with the Railways but had learned his trade with Henry Vale and Sons at Auburn.
He reached Egypt on New Year’s Day 1916 and was taken on the strength of the 1st Field Company of Engineers. Through the first half of 1916 he served in Egypt with several bouts of illness and was promoted to Lance Corporal in May. He left Alexandria and arrived in Marseilles on 24 June. Through several hospitalisations and leave periods in England in 1917 he was promoted to Corporal and detached to the Lewis Gun School in May 1918.
He was wounded in action on 1 September 1918 and died in France on 2 September 1918 and is buried in the Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, 2¾ miles W of Corbie, Picardie, France.
Somehow the arrangement of the NSWGR&T making up the pay of those serving in the AIF to the prevailing railway pay had been overlooked in Burrow’s case and it was not until 1921 that his mother, Rubina, obtained this benefit.
(NAA B2455-3174060)
Submitted 13 May 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John and Hannah Georgina May Burrows nee THOMAS, Palmdale Farm, Harvey, Western Australia
Father John Burrows was also on active service.
Husband of Evelyn Florence BURROWS
ALLEGED MURDER
DALKEITH VICTIM DIES
WIFE CHARGED
March 22.
Henry John Burrows (43), garage proprietor, of Neville-road, Dalkeith, who was taken from his home to the Perth Hospital on Thursday night suffering from a gunshot wound in the right hip, died early yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon the deceased man's wife, Evelyn Florence Burrows (42) was charged with wilful murder. Mrs. Burrows had been charged on Friday with having unlawfully wounded her husband, and had been remanded on bail in the Perth Police Court on Saturday. She will appear in the Police Court today
on the new charge.
About 9.15 on Thursday night neighbours of Mr. and Mrs. Burrows were startled on hearing two loud explosions. They were followed by groans and cries. They told the police that when they Worried outside they saw Mrs. Burrows coming towards them and she asked them to telephone a doctor as there had been a gun accident. A neighbour who had a telephone at his house rang up a doctor and a message was also sent to the Claremont police. Mr. and Mrs. Burrows were at one time residents of Peak Hill and are well known, there and at Meekatharra.
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