David Charles Burrows

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772324

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Ancient Order of Foresters

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Berkshire

Birth city:

Winkfield

Address at enlistment:

Tutela P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Tutela P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Employer:

Cockshutt Plow Co.

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX April 2, 1917

Invalided Home

Mr. L. Burrows of this city has received a telegram from her husband, Private David Charles Burrows, that he has arrived in Halifax from England, where he has been invalided home on account of a weakened constitution. He had not been to the front.

BX April 7, 1917

Returned Soldiers

In all probability the following men will leave Toronto for Brantford on Sunday next, April 8 by the 6 o'clock Grand Trunk train. Privates F.C. Roberts, 117 Grey Street; D.C. Burrows, Gordon Street; and D.S. Spence, 247 Greenwich Street.

BX April 9, 1917

Two Veterans Are Back Home Again – Privates F.C. Roberts and D.C. Burrows Were Invalided Out of Service

Two more war heroes, one crippled and the other suffering from lung trouble, arrived in the city yesterday. They are Pte. Frederick Clarence Roberts of 117 Grey Street, who slipped in during the afternoon, and he is crippled, and Pte. David Charles Burrows, of 4 Gordon Street, who returned on the 7.32 G.T.R. train and was sent home through having contracted lung trouble. The Soldiers’ Aid Commission was notified that three men were coming yesterday, leaving Toronto at 6 p.m. One of these however, had arrived back last Thursday evening. Later the authorities were notified that they were leaving at 1 o’clock and expecting that they would come by the radial from Hamilton this station was watched. However, the result was that neither were met. The latest information was that they would be held up in Toronto and sent to Hamilton. Pte. Burrows, was in an English hospital for four months. He went overseas with the 125th Battalion, but experiencing trouble with his lungs, was sent to the hospital. He was then invalided home, the expectation being that the change of climate would help him. He will shortly report back to Toronto and likely go to the sanitarium at Hamilton.

BX March 23, 1964

David Charles Burrows

David Charles Burrows, 91, of 34 King Street East, Burford died Saturday in the Brantford General Hospital. He was born in Winkfield, England, coming to Brantford in 1911, where he was with the Cockshutt Farm Equipment Limited. He served in the First World War, joining the 125th Battalion in 1916. In 1922 he moved to Burford, where he was a market gardener, retiring in 1950. He was a life member of the Royal Canadian Legion and a member of the 25 year Club and the 125th Battalion Association, Brantford. He attended Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Burford. Surviving besides his wife, the former Leonora Readings, are three daughters, Mrs. J.E. (Dolly) Armstrong of Brantford, Mrs. Winnie Bourne of Kelowna, B.C., Mrs. Gordon (Florence) Brown of Harley; 10 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren. A daughter, Elsie died in 1962. Mr. Burrows is at the Robinson Funeral Home, Burford, for service Tuesday at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford.