Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the husband of Agnes Lydia Burrowes (nee Biddle, married in the 3rd quarter of 1914 in the Gainsborough, Lincolnshire district), born on the 27th February 1887 in Stamford, Lincolnshire. George Burrowes was born on the 3rd March 1880 in Clara, Offaly, King’s County, Ireland. In April 1911 George was employed as a fitter and turner and was residing as a boarder at 63, Percival Street, Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire. Sometime after their marriage George and Agnes made their family home at 33, St. George Street, Leicester, together with their daughter Constance Alice Biddle who was born on the 4th June 1914 in Gainsborough. George’s widow was awarded a weekly Army Pension for herself and her daughter of sixteen shillings to commence on the 23rd March 1915. In the 3rd quarter of 1918 George’s widow married Alfred Cooley in the Leicester district, and the resided at 44, Northampton Street, Leicester. George’s daughter Constance, married Joseph Cyril Jessop in the 3rd quarter of 1934 in the Hampstead, Middlesex district, Joseph was born on the 15th November 1909 in Leicester. Joseph and Constance had a daughter Elizabeth Ann, who was born on the 7th June 1935 in Marylebone, Middlesex, the family latterly resided at 12, Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon.
NOTE: Little can be discovered about George, his surname spelling appears in some documents as Burrowes and in others as Burrows, I have chosen to use the former spelling as that seems to be the one most often used including on the war memorial in St. George’s Churchyard in Leicester, his place of birth is also open to question, as he is shown in some documents as having been born in St. Paul’s in Dublin, Ireland and in other documents as being born in Clara, Offaly, King’s County, Ireland, I have chosen to use the latter as that place of birth appears in two separate documents. A further item to cause confusion is that in the census return of April 1911 he gives his status as married, when his marriage did not take place until mid 1914, and finally I have yet to discover at what point in time from the date of his marriage and enlistment into the Army in Gainsborough, that he and his wife took up their residence at 33, St. George Street, Leicester.
George’s Army enlistment documents do not survive, all that is known of his military service is that he enlisted into the Lincolnshire Regiment, being allotted the service number 7813, and was posted as a Private to that Regiment’s Depot for training, subsequently being posted to the 1st Battalion. It was with this Battalion that he first entered the theatre of war in France on the 23rd November 1914, nothing further is known of his service, save for the fact that he was promoted to the rank of Acting Sergeant, being the rank that he held at the time when he was wounded in action, dying on the 4th February 1915. He was buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France. George was awarded the 1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.